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 »
Intel Strategy – Tick Tock, System On Chip, Atom, Security And Servers
Intel is one of the most important vendors in the ITC industry and yet is hard to understand - not least because of its need to predict distant user needs. Read ITCandor's analysis of its current strategy, complete with some admissions about what we got right and wrong over many years of forecasting. Read more »
IBM Smarter Computing – ‘Big Data In Optimized Systems, Managed As A Cloud’
IBM is ahead of other vendors when it comes to understanding the linkeage between workloads and servers and is learning how to integrate its hardware, software and services into new types of computer. Read ITCandor's analysis of how it is expanding its definition of the system in what it terms 'Smarter Computing'. Read more »
IBM System Z Mips Shows Increased Centralisation And A Return To Growth
ITCandor publishes its initial Mips Model for IBM System z mainframes. It will help you understand how this server business is developing over time. Read more »
Server Choices – Why Chips, Form Factors, Architectures And Workloads Matter
The differences between chips, form factors, architectures and workloads are essential to understand when choosing to buy a server. ITCandor looks at the differences and relationships Read more »
AMD’s New Opteron 6000 ‘Magny Cours’ Processors In HP, Dell And Acer Server Lines
AMD launched its new Opteron 6000 chips on March 29th 2010 and was endorsed by a number of OEMs. In this article ITCandor looks at the advantages. Read more »
Fujitsu’s New CX1000 Primegy Server – Density Design For Cloud Computing With New Cooling
Fujitsu have designed a new modular server made from nodes and cooled by funnels, allowing data centres to do away with 'hot aisles' Read ITCandor's take on its announcement. Read more »
The World Server Market – A Forecast To Recovery
The server market has undergone a dramatic fall over the last year. In this analyst report Martin give a forecast for the recovery. Read more »
IBM System X – An Integrated x86 Approach From The Fullest Range Vendor
IBM invited a number of analysts over to Avenet's office to discuss System x. Martin's written it up, adding data from his own research. Read more »