•Structured Cabling
The market bore the brunt of the slowdown and remained almost flat, but it advanced in terms of adoption of new technologies and standards

•Linux
Linux is witnessing huge uptake in the education and desktop user segment

•Training
Despite the slowdown sentiments and reduced emphasis on training by companies, private players ensured that Indian IT education remains on a firm wicket

•Monitor
An unfortunate year as the market shrunk after many years

•Servers
One of the worst years in recent times, the server market almost became tri-polar with HP, IBM and Dell battling it out for more revenue and market share

•Printer
It was an extremely poor show, as the overall market declined

•Business Applications
BI shone amidst the dreary canvas that was portrayed by overall enterprise business applications

•RIM
A market worth Rs 550 crore in 2008 it is likely to grow at a CAGR of 30% over the next five years

•Domestic Services
While need based buying replaced demand based, business transformation became the core objective for Indian enterprises through innovative and integrated tech solutions

•Storage
The downturn took its toll on the storage market, as growth was disturbed. Though the explosive data growth did offer hope for a better tomorrow

•Racks and Enclosures
Almost all vendors focused on the energy efficiency sales pitch

•Consumables
The gray market almost got wiped out last year, helping the OEM market thrive

•Personal computers
...and the the PC market just crumbled

•Storage Peripherals
Demand for more digital data storage and increasing mobility pushed demand

•SaaS
The SaaS market is expected to almost double by 2009 end, indicating that the on-demand model has come as a blessing in disguise

•IT Services Exports
Currency fluctuations, global slowdown, the Satyam saga, all ensured that the changes happening to the IT services exports sector were not superficial

•Videoconferencing
Growth, reshuffling, repositioning and remodeling—it’s all happening in this segment!

•Distribution
Notwithstanding a satisfying first half, impact on hardware sales became more pronounced during H2

•Solution Providers
More complex projects in newer areas signal an important evolution in the Indian domestic services space

•Enterprise Mobile Applications
The enterprise mobile applications market is yet to transition from the hype cycle to the adoption cycle

•BPO Exports
The BPO industry showed its maturity by continuing on its chosen path, despite business slowing down in some areas

•UPS
The UPS market slumped due to lower demand from enterprises

•Semiconductor Design
Indian semiconductor design industry grew modestly in the slowdown

•Security
Security was one of the high growth areas in the domestic market

•Indian Software Products
Even though growing, the segment is yet to attain critical size

•Systems Software
Microsoft’s domination in the operating system space continues, but the recession augured well for open source

•Engineering Services
The transformation of engineering services exports as an industry segment accelerated

•Smartphones
Rationalization of prices, and increased features led to more adoption

•Gaming and Entertainment
Considering the vast potential, the Indian animation and gaming industry is still not up there

•ATM
The RBI guidelines that made ATM transactions free and permitted banks to set up offsite ATMs, were the key growth drivers this year

•Networking Products
The networking segment took a hit as enterprises either put their communications spend on hold or cut them drastically