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 »

Microprocessor shortages – reasons, data and solutions

A look at the causes of the shortages of microprocessors Read more »

IBM to split – spinning off its managed service business

Some ideas - with market data and forecasts - on IBM's intention to split itself into 2 companies Read more »

Servers – $75.6 spent on 21.3 systems in 2019

A look at the server market in 2019 including shares for suppliers, operating systems and virtualization status. 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 »

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 »

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 »