Mobile devices – the battle between East and West for a $545 billion market

The mobile device market is massive – in 2021 there were 1.7 billion shipments worth $545 billion and an installed base of 3.7 billion. Growth in the year was 25% in spending and 8% in shipments, although the installed base didn’t grow. The number of non-Internet enabled basic phones and […] Read more »

The PC market booms, despite supply chain and government challenges

a summary of the worldwide and regional PC market in 2021 Read more »

The $207b network market – still haunted by issues of trust

A long term view of the enterprise and servic provider network markets with market data and analysis Read more »

Storage systems 2021 – stable spending in a sea of change

The worldwide storage systems hardware market grew by just 2% in 2021 to reach $34.8 billion, which proved yet again that the success of these products has become increasingly unconnected with that of raw storage, which grew by 19% growth in the year. My Figure above shows total spending by […] Read more »

Networks – a tale of two cities and failing trust

A look at spending, changes and supplier market shares in enterprise and service provider networks Read more »

Smart phones, global warming, suppliers and nations

A look at the mobile device market and its carbon consequences Read more »

The worldwide server market – hedged in by cloud, but still vital

The server market is vital for enterprise and SMEs, supporting vital workloads, but growth appears to have stalled. No doubt spending would be much higher if the self-built systems of the largest cloud computing weren’t continuing to eat up commercial workloads. Within the market the leading vendors – Dell EMC […] Read more »

Cloud computing at $344b – the Enterprise IT market squeeze continues

A look at the status of the cloud services market complete with market shares and forecasts Read more »

Mobile devices and international politics

A look at the annual changes and future challenges of the mobile device and smart phone market Read more »

Apple – how much bigger can it grow?

Apple is the largest IT company in the world. It’s revenues were $294 billion in 2020 – the equivalent of everyone alive on the planet spending $26.52 on its offerings. It’s business grew substantially on the introduction of the iPhone, expanded as we recovered from the Credit Crunch and has […] Read more »

IP telephony surges in the politicised network market

Service Provider and Enterprise Networks have been extremely important during the pandemic; nevertheless most Telcos and organizations have been relying on those already installed to keep people, governments and businesses connected. In total the market grew by 1% to $187 billion in the year to the end of March, but […] Read more »