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The global recession has brought a slump in PC sales throughout the Asia Pacific market, with the exception of portable PCs.

Stories abound day in day out on the damage the global economic crisis is doing to all industries and many businesses, but there’s a new report just out revealing that PC demand has remained relatively resilient in the face of this downturn compared to the last.

The financial crisis has hit the overall mobile phone market in Australia, with a 16 percent decline in sales last year, but there was some joy amidst the gloom and doom with the smartphone segment defying the recession and growing by 7.6 percent.

There are good opportunities for Australian utility companies to benefit from ICT innovation and investment, with ICT spending by the utilities market in Australia forecast to grow from $1,120 million last year to A$1,308 million in 2012.

The global ramping up of large-scale virtual server implementations is likely to drive demand for what IDC is calling a newly defined competitive market - virtual server management software – for distributed systems.

IDC New Zealand has consummated a partnership with the country’s telecoms user group at a time when, according to IDC, the NZ telecommunications industry is at a crossroads as it faces international competition for what it calls 21st century telecommunications infrastructure and services.

Microsoft has brought out a new entry-level server-based solution targeted at small businesses with 15 or fewer users, which it says gives them the ability, at a modest cost, to run business applications and databases, host Web sites, and provide basic server functionality such as file and print sharing and remote access.

As the economic crisis continues, reducing the cost of IT operations is a key consideration for many European organisations, with decision makers actively addressing the issue and looking for ways to improve cost effectiveness.

Server shipments have plummeted in the Asia Pacific region as the economic crisis sweeping the region and the rest of the world worsens.

The tough economic conditions have slowed growth in ICT vertical markets in Australia with IDC today revising its forecasts down and now predicting the industry will reach a value of $46,939 million by 2012, not $47,830 million as forecast last year. But, there’s some upside on the horizon, with government forecasted to experience the fastest increase in ICT investment in the next few years as it acts to stimulate the economy.

There’s expected to be a continuation of growth in 2009 in the Unified Communication (UC) market within specific industry verticals due to ‘a much needed technology re-fresh’, according to IDC in its latest market insight report.

The current economic situation has proved that the mobile phone market generally is not immune to recession but, in Western Europe, at least the rapidly expanding consumer market for the latest smartphones grew by nearly 26% in the last quarter of 2008 compared to the corresponding period of 2007, according to IDC’s latest European Mobile Phone Tracker report.