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 PC market booms, despite supply chain and government challenges

a summary of the worldwide and regional PC market in 2021 Read more »

The $1.2 trillion Enterprise IT market 2021 – Amazon market leader of a varied and changing landscape

A look at the total market for enterprise IT encompassing hardware, infrastructure software, outsourcing, managed service and cloud computing with market trnds and shares 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 »

Storage systems 2021 – stable spending in a sea of change

The worldwide storage systems hardware market grew by just 2% in 2021 to reach $34.8 billion, which proved yet again that the success of these products has become increasingly unconnected with that of raw storage, which grew by 19% growth in the year. My Figure above shows total spending by […] Read more »

‘as a service’ offerings and hybrid multi-cloud architectures become the norm in enterprise computing

Each generation of enterprise computing (centralized, client-server, Internet, managed services, cloud) has created disruption and inefficiencies in integration of the new with the old. Leading suppliers such as Cisco, IBM, Oracle, HPE, Huawei, Atos, Fujitsu and Hitachi will attempt to hang on to their customers’ budgets by promoting ‘as a […] 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 »

Storage systems hardware and software, raw storage trends and market shares

My latest shares, trends and analysis of the global storage market 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 »

The printer market – where do we go from here?

The printer market entered yet another phase of decline as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 customers spent $33 billion (down 10%) on 143 million printers (down 11%), while the total installed base dropped 4% to 577 million. 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 »

Storage systems – 1.8ZB shipped, $33.4b spent in 2019

A sizing of the storage systems and raw storage markets 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 »