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GUEST OPINION by Ravi Rajendran, Vice President Asia Pacific, Cohesity: Corporate IT teams should make the most of Australia’s traditional January slowdown because they’ll need all their energy to deal with the challenges that lie ahead in 2021.

The global PC market is expected to fall by 3.4% in 2020, with PC shipments in the first quarter of 2020 falling by more than 25% sequentially and 10% annually due to the coronavirus outbreak affecting both the channel and supply chains in China.

The coronavirus outbreak will severely affect China’s smart devices market including smartphone and PC shipments, according to analyst firm Canalys which says it has dramatically revised previous forecasts of a 7% decline in smartphone shipments to a 40% to-50% drop for smartphones and 20% for PCs - with the proviso that the situation recovers to pre-outbreak levels by the end of February.