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IDC: Pandemic Continues to Affect European IT Spending

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According to IDC, European IT spending-- including software, hardware and services-- is set to drop by -4.7% to reach $487 million in 2020, as the coronavirus (aka Covid-19) pandemic continues to loom over the European economy.

IT Spending IDC Europe

Many countries are relaxing lockdown restrictions, but businesses will continue to face "strong" challenges, with industries such as transportation and personal and consumer services being among the most affected. According to the analyst, the combined industries will face a decrease of -11.6% in IT spending in 2020. After all, airlines have drastically cut flight numbers, while many hotels, restaurants, bars and pubs remain were shut down following government guidelines. Some businesses are reopening, leading to some mild improvement for the months ahead, but rebound will be "very slow" for the two industries.

Kaseya Enhancements to Managed Solutions

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Infrastructure management solution provider Kaseya announces ProfitFuel and BudgetFuel-- a pair of value propositions for IT Complete, the suite of monitoring, management, security, cloud, continuity and compliance tools.

Kaseya logoDescribed by the company as the two pillars for a comprehensive, workflow integrated platform to serve SMB IT and MSP needs, ProfitFuel and BudgetFuel promise to bring savings while allowing users to operate more productively, leading to increased customer acquisition for MSPs and budget user satisfaction for internal IT teams.

Kaseya also has updates for a number of products. For instance, the latest VSA release provides a topology map visualisation of both network and endpoint environments to speed troubleshooting, understand asset relationships and actively manage devices from a single, unified view. The Unitrends Unified Backup Portal allows users to manage all backups from a single portal, while IT Glue Passwords Folder Security gives organisations full control over password management with macro (folders) and micro (individual password) controls.

Planar Adds FX Series to LED Range

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Planar announces an addition to its portfolio of LED display solution with the Planar FX series, a range of fine pixel pitch LED video wall displays promising to bring image detail and resolution levels usually reserved to lower light private spaces.

Planar FX

The series offers outdoor models in 1.5, 1.9, 2.6, 2.9 and 3.9mm pixel pitches, in addition to indoor models with 1.5, 1.9 and 2.6mm pixel pitches. The range brings up to 3500 nits indoors and 4000 nits outdoors, with such high resolution and brightness making them ideal for up-close content during daylight hours. The company suggests use in lobbies, corporate campus exteriors, transportation, retail environments and hospitality.

Intel Names 2030 Global Challenges

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Intel releases the annual Corporate Responsibility Report-- one defining the global challenges for the company, expanding its commitment in resources, expertise, global reach and influence beyond own operations.

Intel global challenges

“The world is facing challenges that we understand better each day as we collect and analyze more data, but they go unchecked without a collective response-- from climate change to deep digital divides around the world to the current pandemic that has fundamentally changed all our lives,” CEO Bob Swan says. “We can solve them, but only by working together.”

Context: Desktop Monitor Demand on the Up

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W. European monitor sales are up by a record 35% Y-o-Y in March 2020, Context reports, leading to an overall increase of 18% Y-o-Y for Q1 2020, as the current pandemic crisis drives a need for better hardware.

Context monitor market

Such results are beyond the expectation of analysts, even those who expected monitor sales to grow in H1 2020. The 2nd half of February saw distributors increase orders as customers prepared for future product shortages, understandable considering the shuttering of many factories in China. Eventual lockdowns in most European countries led to many employees to start working home, leading to a surge in demand for desktop monitors, as well as PCs and computing accessories.

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