A look at the PC market in 2019 and some thoughts of their importance at a time of crisis. Read more »
The PC market in 2019 – 244m shipments, $169b spending, 881 installed base
Gaming console market 2019 – how about a virtual 2020 Olympics?
My sizing of the gaming console and software markets in 2019 Read more »
Mobile devices – a $361b market, 1.4b shipments, 3.2b installed base in 2019
My look at the 2019 market for mobile devices with a forecast to 2025 Read more »
SAP certifies IBM Power9 for its HANA Enterprise Cloud
SAP's certification of IBM Power9 servers for its HANA Enterprise Cloud data center Read more »
IBM radically simplifies its storage offerings in Q1 2020
ITCandor's assessment of IBM storage announcement on Feb 12th 2020 Read more »
The ITC market’s top suppliers – a 10-year perspective
Having made my predictions for the year, I wanted to follow up with the long-term vendor share developments in the ITC industry. In the Figure above I show market shares for the top 12 suppliers in the years to then of September in 2009 and 2019. There have been a […] Read more »
3. Spending on software will grow most, while hardware spending will decline
If we look at the long-term development of the ITC market by broad categories of offerings (see my Figure) we see that both IT Service and Software have been growing faster than Telecom Service and Hardware. In 2020 I expect this trend to continue; the strongest growth will be in […] Read more »
6. The only hardware spending growth will be on solid state disks and processors
The hardware market will decline by 2.0% overall and only two product types – solid state drives and processors – will grow in 2020 (please note that I have excluded OEM sales from this forecast). Mobile device will be the one on which we spend most, but it will be […] Read more »
9. Raw storage shipments exceed 2 Zetabytes
Spending on raw storage (which in this case includes OEM shipments) declined by 24% to $172 billion in 2019 following two years of strong growth (37% in 2017 and 18% in 2018); nevertheless shipped capacity continued to increase, reaching 1.683 Zetabytes. While the creation of new products with much larger […] Read more »
Google Sycamore achieves ‘Quantum Supremacy’, but what does that mean?
A look at Google's achievement of 'quantum supremacy' Read more »
IBM’s Q4 2019 announcements – storage for the AI and container workloads you want to run
Following closely on the heels of the DS8900 launch last month, IBM announced some major storage products (both hardware and software) today at the TechU conference in Prague. My analysis here is based not only on briefing material from Eric Herzog and his team, but also from my visit to […] Read more »
Computer peripherals – new strategies for a maturing market
A look at the market for computer peripherals and printers in the year to the end of June 2019 Read more »
PC market maturity drives new supplier business models
A report of the state of the PC market in Q2 2019 with market shares and evidence of maturity Read more »
Storage systems – calm in a stormy storage sea
Some stats and thoughts about the storage systems market in the first half of 2019 Read more »
Server market takes a pause in 2019 – still dominated by Windows and x86
A look at the server market in the first half of 2019 from ITCandor's research Read more »
Network spending at $186b – service providers beat enterprise customers
A look at ITCandor's latest findings for the service provider and enterprise network markets to Q2 2019 Read more »
Infrastructure software – largest part of enterprise and second largest software category
A look at the growing market for infrastructure software as part of both the enterprise IT and software markets. Read more »
The gaming market waits for new Sony and Microsoft consoles
A look at the gaming console market worldwide at the end of June 2019 Read more »
Mobile device market down 8% to $392b – what’s the next big thing?
We look at the state of play in the mobile device market in Q2 2019 Read more »
Microprocessor chip sales $317 billion – highly profitable, but sluggish
I have a look at the microprocessor market in Q2 2019 Read more »