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
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 »
1. The overall ITC market will grow by 0.8% to $6.849 trillion
Overall I expect world spending on all offerings to grow by just 0.8% to $6.849 billion; for the vendors net profits will increase by 0.1% to $730 billion, while their combined headcount will grow by 1.1% to 20.9 million. Navigate our predictions – intro 1 2 3 4 5 6 […] Read more »
2. The Americas will lead regional ITC spending growth
On a regional level (see my Figure) I expect the Americas to do best with a 1.6% growth to $2.659 trillion, followed by Asia Pacific (+0.8% to $2.187 trillion); I expect business in EMEA to decline slightly by 0.1% to $2.006 trillion. Americas’ rise in the chart is due in […] 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 »
4. The business market grows; the consumer market continues to fall
2015 was the last time consumers beat business in terms of spending growth on ITC offerings. I expect this to continue throughout my forecast to 2026. In 2020 businesses will spend 1.9% more, while consumers spend 0.8% less than in 2019. One reason for this is the increasing centralization of […] Read more »
5. IT Services spending grows most on IaaS and PaaS cloud services, while other offerings ‘flat line’
There will continue to be major differences in spending growth on IT Services, which I predict will grow 1.8% overall. Leading the charge will be IaaS and PaaS cloud services, which I predict will grow by 23.9% and 16.6% respectively in 2020. Of the other offerings implementation will remain the […] 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 »
7. Wider adoption of 5G allows spending on mobile telecom service to grow
Telecom service will have a good year in 2020, with spending growing by 0.7%. Driving the increase will be the wider adoption of 5G services in mobile telecoms – an area that will grow by 2.8% in the year. The strongest spending growth however will be on Enterprise service (3.8% […] Read more »
8. SaaS and Infrastructure will lead the software market
The software market will grow by 3.0% in 2020 and we will spend more on almost every product type. I expect the strongest spending growth to be on the Software as a Service (SaaS) area, with an increase of 5.1% over the 2019 rate (nevertheless the increase in SaaS spending […] Read more »
10. Governments move against those trading data from social networking
The Web remains broken; a handful of malign actors continue to exploit the privacy of hundreds of million of users every day, selling their data to other suppliers, perverting democracy and creating disruption. 2020 will be a year in which some governments begin to take tougher action. In the EU […] Read more »
Exchange rates v $US in Q3 2019 – Egypt best, Venezuala worst
Some thoughts on changes in the value of international currencies against the $US in Q3 2019 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 »
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 »