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 »

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 »

ITC markets down 2% in Q2 2017 – growth worst in the UK (again), best in India

A précis of ITCandor's quarterly tracking of the ITC market in Q2 2017 and the year to the end of June. Read more »

Storage 2017 – growth at last!

A complete review of the storage systems, disc, NAND and DRAM markets. Read more »

IBM, Everledger and the market disruption of Blockchain

Exchanging assets for money can be a complicated – and sometimes expensive – process: for instance trading stock can happen in a millisecond, but settlement can take days to complete. Imagine a world in which such transactions can be handled in the digital realm in a system which creates an […] Read more »