My latest stats on the service provider, enterprise and overall network market Read more »
Cisco to acquire Splunk for $28 billion
Analyis of Cisco's porposed acquisition of Splunk for c. $28b Read more »
Networking – converged, converging or eternally independent?
Some sizing and ideas about the networking market and the convergence beyween telecoms and IT markets Read more »
My 360° insight into the $7.3 trillion post-pandemic ITC market
A multi-dimensional look at the worldwide IT and communications market Read more »
The $207b network market – still haunted by issues of trust
A long term view of the enterprise and servic provider network markets with market data and analysis Read more »
Networks – a tale of two cities and failing trust
A look at spending, changes and supplier market shares in enterprise and service provider networks Read more »
The worldwide server market – hedged in by cloud, but still vital
The server market is vital for enterprise and SMEs, supporting vital workloads, but growth appears to have stalled. No doubt spending would be much higher if the self-built systems of the largest cloud computing weren’t continuing to eat up commercial workloads. Within the market the leading vendors – Dell EMC […] Read more »
Cisco’s long-lasting first-mover advantages
A quick look at Cisco's historical success and future challenges Read more »
IP telephony surges in the politicised network market
Service Provider and Enterprise Networks have been extremely important during the pandemic; nevertheless most Telcos and organizations have been relying on those already installed to keep people, governments and businesses connected. In total the market grew by 1% to $187 billion in the year to the end of March, but […] Read more »
Networks – $185b, 2.1b ports shipped in 2019
A look at network equipment sales and market shares in 2019 Read more »
Servers – $75.6 spent on 21.3 systems in 2019
A look at the server market in 2019 including shares for suppliers, operating systems and virtualization status. Read more »
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 »
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 »
Infrastructure software – largest part of enterprise and second largest software category
A look at the growing market for infrastructure software as part of both the enterprise IT and software markets. Read more »
Europe ITC – €1.6T revenue, €160B net profit, 6m workers
More stats on ITC in Europe Read more »
Download the ‘Growth Opportunities in the OEM Landscape’ presentation
Your chance to download the slide set from my presentation to the SIA in April 2019 Read more »
Servers up 9% to $85b in 2018 despite self-built cloud system competition
A look at the server market in 2018 and its growing competition with cloud services Read more »
Huawei v Cisco vie for control of the $181b network market
A look at the enterprise and service provider network markets Read more »
Server revenues grow 13% in Q2 2018, but most vendors are failing to sell to CSPs
My review of the worldwide server market by region, vendor, processor, virtualisation status and operating system Read more »