A visit to IBM research labs - food for thought! Read more »
IBM Research Labs Zurich – neural, neuromorphic, quantum, crypto, blockchain, lattice computing… help!
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 »
IBM leads the shift from server… to cloud… driven data storage
Martin looks at the latest storage announcements from IBM Read more »
ITC 2026 – a software-defined, cloud delivered ITC world
The top line forecast for worldwide IT and communications markets. Read more »
ITcandor publishes 2017 mobile device market shares and forecasts
ITCandor announces the publication of its Q4 2017 mobile device data set Read more »
The expanding scope and success of IBM Spectrum storage software
A look at the enhancements to IBM' Spectrum storage software offerings. Read more »
AMD expands its x86 embedded processor lines – a targeted market approach
A look at AMD's target markets for its new embedded processors. Read more »
The profitability of Qualcomm and Broadcom/Avago
Decision time on the acquisition of Qualcomm by Broadcom/Avago may rest on calculations of profitability; however there's no simple way to work out a comparison 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 »
9. Oracle makes strong headway as an enterprise supplier
Our ninth 2018 prediction is that Oracle will do particularly well in the year. Read more »
8. Storage commoditisation puts more suppliers out of business
My eighth 2018 prediction is about how the rapid exponential growth in raw storage capacities is making a nonsense of most storage system supplier strategies. Read more »
7. Enterprise computing shifts off premise – AWS replaces Cisco as top supplier
My seventh 2018 prediction is about the evolving balance between traditional hardware, infrastructure software, outsourcing, managed services and cloud purchases. Read more »
5. Cloud – local and regional CSPs gain against global giants
My fifth 2018 prediction is about the global regional and local nature of successful cloud service providers. Read more »
4. SaaS, IaaS, PaaS – the fastest growing offerings
Our fourth prediction for 2018 is that the three cloud service areas - PaaS, IaaS and SaaS will experience the strongest growth among the 29 separate offerings we track. Read more »
Broadcom, Qualcomm, NXP – fish, chips and globalisation
Globalised consolidation of the semiconductor industry threatens customer choice Read more »
Cisco, HP, Dell – cloud service laggards, falling enterprise IT market shares
Hoe leading cloud vendors are positioned Read more »
The 2025 enterprise computing forecast – cloud wins hands-down
My enterprise computing forecast including a masive victory for cloud computing. Read more »
Storage systems down, disk drives up, solid state booms in Q2 2017
A post on the latest Q2 2017 market growth, shares and successes of the raw and systems storage. Read more »
The year to June 2017 $76b server market primed for big growth
A précis of our server market sresearch Read more »