My measurement of the complex, large and changing IT services market. Read more »
IT services grew 6.7% in Q1 2018 – mixed bag, slow, big changes
Microprocessor revenues grew 17.4% in Q1 2018 – welcome to the Digital Age!
An overview of this important supplier-to-supplier component business Read more »
Services and supplies drive the 9% growth in Q1 2018 peripheral spending
An update in the peripheral market in Q1 2018 Read more »
Q1 2018 – Dell tops the server market for the first time
Dell tops the server market for the first time Read more »
Storage markets surge in Q1 2018
I look at the Q1 2018 raw and systems storage markets. Read more »
Storage – the raw v system dichotomy
Some 2017 sizing, shares and forecast from ITCandor's storage research Read more »
Peripherals – the Asia Pacific bias
Spending on peripherals is moving towards Asia Pacific. Read more »
The regional PC market’s American bias
In 2017 spending on PCs increased by 5% to $153 billion – the first annual growth since 2012. The same is not true of annual shipment growth, which has typically been stronger due increasing competition and declining average values. This trend was reversed in 2017 when the popularity of machines based on new […] Read more »
The gaming market – open v proprietary lessons for all ITC suppliers
Although the gaming console market is small and about ‘entertainment’, there are a number of issues it can help us with when trying to work out what’s going on in other, larger and more important areas of the IT and communications industry. As always my statistics published here are from […] Read more »
ITC 2026 – a software-defined, cloud delivered ITC world
The top line forecast for worldwide IT and communications markets. Read more »
Meltdown and Spectre – 2.7b vulnerable devices and a $37b bill for mitigation
A look at the market consequences of mitigating against Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities Read more »
Germany regains leading position in EU data center spending
A teaser to get you to subscribe to my quarterly EU data center research reports Read more »
Brexit and Trump – gloablisation gets a bashing
My presentation for IP Expo on 4th October 2017 Read more »
IBM z14 mainframe – sophisticated fixes for enterprise challenges
IBM launched its latest mainframe last week. The z14 will create an upward swing in the never ending see-sawing of the most important single server in the market. My Figure shows z System hardware revenues by quarter (on a rolling 4-quarter basis) with model introductions anchored to the left apart from the […] Read more »
Global ITC Q1 2017 – US strong, UK tanks
Insight into regional and major country growth in ITC spending in Q1 2017 Read more »
2016 UK IT market up 12% – the Brexit phoney war
A sizing and forecast of the UK IT hardware market. Read more »
When to buy and sell ITC companies
A prediction of when to buy and sell ITC vendor shares and companies. Read more »
Dell Technology – a common hymn book for a big choir
Thoughts on the world's largest IT merger/acquisition Read more »
Brexit – selling UK IT assets by the pound
Source: ITCandor from OANDA historical data Part of my methodology each quarter is to look at currency movements of international currency against the $US. My Figure shows the movement of the average value of each local currency in Q2 2016 compared with their rates in Q2 2015. Those on the […] Read more »
Peripherals sales down 8.9% in Q1 2016
Our latest market share, shipment and growth stats for the printer and peripherals market in Q1 2016 Read more »