Microsoft has just announced its Surface tablet platform, due to ship in 2 versions. Read ITCandor's analysis, including market shares for tablets, PCs and other client devices. Read more »
HP Networking – Management For Telcos And Enterprises, Wireless For BYOD
HP is a growing force in networking - one of the few hardware markets it doesn't lead. Read how it's providing wireless networking for BYOD, providing management and how it sees the 'enterprise network of the future'. Read more »
IBM Launches PureSystems – An Integrated Compute, Storage, Networking and Middleware Approach
IBM has spent along time preparing itself for its introduction of PureSystems. Read how ITCandor assesses the shift from pick 'n' mix data centre components to this fully integrated approach. Read more »
RedHat RHEV3 – Alternative Virtualisation And Ecosystem
RedHat launched RHEV3 this week. Read ITCandor's assessment of its position and chances as an advanced virtualisation player. Read more »
IBM Mainframes – Integrating Business Analytics With zBX
IBM System z has been going through a resurgence - especially in the attached zBX cabinet. Read ITCandor's assessment. Read more »
IBM Invests In Africa – ‘The Next India, The Next China’
Africa has much potential for ITC business over the next few years. Read ITCandor's assessment of IBM STG's position to take advantage. Read more »
Dell Storage Systems – Big Hat, Good Cattle
Dell brought Darren Thomson and his storage systems team to its London Forum this week. Read ITCandor's analysis. Read more »
IBM And VMware Find Common Ground In Storage And Server Hypervising
IBM and VMware work together on storage and server hypervisors, addressing advanced virtualisation issues for enterprise customers. Read ITCandor's analysis. Read more »
From Unified To Social Communications And Collaboration
Read this guest post from Pim Bilerbeek of the METISfiles Read more »
Kaseya Addresses Smart Devices In Corporate Networks WIth Mobile Device Management
Managing smart phones and tablets is a growing issue for MSPs and enterprises alike. Read ITCandor's analysis of Kaseya's approach. Read more »
Avere – Can Automated Tiered Storage Reduce Our $120 Billion On Storage?
Avere is a new storage systems supplier with excellent technical experties. It proposes to cut the cost for users through an appliance incorporating automatied tiering. Read ITCandor's analysis of its chances, including sizing of the worldwide storage systems market. Read more »
‘Storage Hypervisors’ – IBM Proposes A New Industry Term
ITCandor enters the debate on storage hyperisors proposed by IBM. Read more »
Server Market Forecast – Cloud Computing And The Coming Recession
Read ITCandor's precis of its latest sizing and forecast of the world server market. Read more »
Dell Proposes Hotter Servers – Less Chillers
Dell proposes operational cost savings in the data centre by running servers, storage and switches at higher temperatures. Read ITCandor's analysis. Read more »
HP’s Growth Slows – Buys Autonomy, Ponders PC Spin-Off
HP announced its financial results for its Q3 period last week. ITCandor has already assessed market growth for the quarter, which shows it with a 3.2% share of the world IT market. Read this analysis of its acquisition of Autonomy and potential PC spin off. Read more »
IBM Targets HP Itanium/Oracle Users With Multiple Campaigns And Resources
IBM is targeting users of HP Itanium servers and Oracle databases with significant resources, taking part in a competitive battle reminiscent of the 1990s. Read ITCandor's analysis of how this fits with market developments. Read more »
AMD APUs – How Balanced Systems Will Transform The PC Market
AMD has lunched a full set of APU chips which incorporate CPU, GPU and Northbridge components. Read ITCandor's views of its competitive position and the important changes this will make to the PC market, Read more »
IBM’s STG Marketing Head Marc Dupaquier On IT Consumerism, Generation Y And Cloud Computing
ITCandor discussed the current market with IBM STG's marketing head Marc Dupaquier. Read our ake on his views about IT consumerism, Smart Computing and the Cloud. Read more »
IBM STG’s Rod Adkins On Smarter Computing, Cloud And The Competition
A small bunch of analysts were lucky enough to have dinner on IBM at Crabtree's Kittle House last week and to be addressed by Rob Adkins, head of STG. Read our take on what he said about the competition, Cloud and Smarter Computing. Read more »
Dell Re-Architects PartnerDirect – Going Against The Stream
Dell traditionally sold directly to customers, but has been building an indirect business since the end of 2007. It's re-architecting its PartnerDirect programme today - adding a new top layer. Read ITCandor'sw analysis of its market position and the challenge of Cloud Computing to the channel. Read more »