SAP's certification of IBM Power9 servers for its HANA Enterprise Cloud data center Read more »
SAP certifies IBM Power9 for its HANA Enterprise Cloud
IBM radically simplifies its storage offerings in Q1 2020
ITCandor's assessment of IBM storage announcement on Feb 12th 2020 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 »
Google Sycamore achieves ‘Quantum Supremacy’, but what does that mean?
A look at Google's achievement of 'quantum supremacy' Read more »
IBM’s Q4 2019 announcements – storage for the AI and container workloads you want to run
Following closely on the heels of the DS8900 launch last month, IBM announced some major storage products (both hardware and software) today at the TechU conference in Prague. My analysis here is based not only on briefing material from Eric Herzog and his team, but also from my visit to […] Read more »
Storage systems – calm in a stormy storage sea
Some stats and thoughts about the storage systems market in the first half of 2019 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 »
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 »
Cloud services $246 billion and still growing at 25%
I look at the latest market developments for cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS and PaaS) Read more »
Microprocessor chip sales $317 billion – highly profitable, but sluggish
I have a look at the microprocessor market in Q2 2019 Read more »
IBM Launches the z15 and LinuxONE III
I look at the z15 at launch Read more »
IBM launches the DS8900F – 2,320k IOPS with encryption built in
I take a look at IBM's new mainframe storage Read more »
IBM hones its storage for hybrid multi cloud solutions
We look at IBM July 2019 storage announcements Read more »
Europe ITC – €1.6T revenue, €160B net profit, 6m workers
More stats on ITC in Europe Read more »
IBM 2019 strategy – running towards the hard things
An evaluation of IBM's 2019 strategy 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 »
IBM expands the Storwize 5000 family and multicloud storage attachments – April 2019
Analysis of IBM storage division announcements on April 2nd 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 »
Storage sales $199b in 2018 – exponential capacity growth, increasing software control
A look at the balance between raw and system storage markets Read more »
IBM Q1 2019 storage announcements – security and AI for hybrid multi-cloud customers
A look at the implications of IBM Storage division's Q1 2019 announcements Read more »