ITC markets down 2% in Q2 2017 – growth worst in the UK (again), best in India

A précis of ITCandor's quarterly tracking of the ITC market in Q2 2017 and the year to the end of June. Read more »

Storage 2017 – growth at last!

A complete review of the storage systems, disc, NAND and DRAM markets. Read more »

Brexit – selling UK IT assets by the pound

Source: ITCandor from OANDA historical data Part of my methodology each quarter is to look at currency movements of international currency against the $US. My Figure shows the movement of the average value of each local currency in Q2 2016 compared with their rates in Q2 2015. Those on the […] Read more »

2016 prediction 2 – EMEA and the Americas outgrow Asia Pacific – at least in constant dollars

The slackness of the market will also be apparent in region spending growth. In particular: The Americas will outperform the others, growing by 0.5% to $2.3T; vendors will need to offer innovative products to persuade these sophisticate users to buy yet more technology EMEA will grow by 0.3% to $1.7T; […] Read more »

2016 prediction 3 – The USA grows faster than other American countries

The USA is by far the largest country market worldwide and within the Americas: in 2016 it will spend $1.7T – 28% of the world total. Growth will be 1.2% – better than other countries in the region. We need the US to grow in order to make up for […] Read more »