Information Technology and Communications research
As I predicted last quarter the Information Technology and Communications market continues to grow. In total revenues reached $1.9 trillion (the highest of any quarter in history) in the quarter and $7.4 trillion in the year to the end of September – up 5% and 3% respectively. Net profit, however […] Read more »
A first look at IBM's on-premise Power Virtual Server pod products and strategy Read more »
An update of the resurgent raw storage (HDD, NAND and DRAM) market with details of spending and capacity shipments from ITCandor. Read more »
Cloud computing spending declined for the first time in 2023. It's time to look at its future Read more »
My analysis of the vendor market share and major trends in the storage systems market Read more »
Infinidat launches its fourth generation storage arrays and version 8 of its Infuze operating software Read more »
My look at IBM Storage announcement of FS5300 hardware, Software Assurance maintenance coverage and Flash Grid Read more »
A look at how IBM is using processing in its Flash Core Module 4 to speed up ransomware attack detection - notoriously difficult for block storage Read more »
My forecast for hard disk drive, NAND and DRAM markets following two ywars of steep decline Read more »
Ceph is 20 years old. Reda about its opportunities as a storage platform of choice for AI Read more »
A look at Nexsan - a growing storage systems supplier Read more »
A quick look at StorPool - a fascinating European Soware Define Storage (SDS) supplier Read more »
I’m nervous to make predictions around raw storage devices following the failures I’ve made here over the last couple of years. There’s no doubt that these markets have proved highly volatile since the pandemic, when not enough of these components were made to meet demand and then were over produced. […] Read more »
A look at the offerings and strategy of Infinidat - an exciting new storage systems vendor Read more »
Poor performance in the sales of raw data storage devices is contributing to the softness of the current ITC market; does this represent a temporary or permanent change in the storage market? Read more »
A look at the major spending movements in the UTC market workdwide in Q2 2023 Read more »
IBM announced last updated its FS5000 series storage systems in February 2021, having launched them the year before. This week it announced the FS5045, which replaces the FS5035. Like the FS5035, the new product includes Data reduction (compression and deduplication), Scale-out clustering, IBM HyperSwap high-availability and Encryption To differentiate it […] Read more »
A look at the size, growth and major suppliers of storage systems in 2022. Read more »
A look at IBM STorage's new Diamondback automated tape library Read more »
A look at the integration of some of Red Hat's resources into IBM Storage division Read more »