Workstation - Mobile Workstations to grow at a faster rate than desktop workstations

Workstations offered higher performance than mainstream personal computers, while the PC industry showed a slight recovery. As per the estimate of VARINDIA, there is a single-digit growth in the workstation market in 2017. The growth of the workstation market globally has resulted from the rise in demand for professional 3D animation software, digital content creation, and networking and graphics over the last few years. Mobile workstations will grow at a faster rate than desktop workstations, but the latter will continue to hold their ground, although growing at a slower rate. With increased mobile workstation performance, work can now be done in real time as opposed to a tower workstation.
 
Key Takeaways: The workstation market trend shows favourable results. The challenge for vendors is to educate the IT managers of the benefits of a workstation over a PC without increasing the IT budget. The demand for mobile workstations is going to further increase in the areas of oil & gas exploration applications, to mention a few. The overall global workstation market is expected to witness a CAGR of 9.8 per cent during the period of 2016-2023, in which the mobile workstation segment is expected to account for the maximum share.
 
Key Vendors: HP, Dell, Lenovo and others including Apple, Fujitsu.