My third prediction concerns ITC spending growth at a country level Read more »
3. ITC spending in China will grow most in 2025
5 Spending on servers will grow most – on peripherals least – in 2025
My fifth prediction cconcerns spending growth by offering in 2025 Read more »
6 Trade tariffs reduce the growth of the ITC market
My sixth prediction concerns the negative effects new trade tariffs will have on the world ITC market Read more »
7 Generative AI bites into the white-collar workforce
My seventh prediction is about the negative effect generative AI will have on employment in 2025 Read more »
8 Users rush to adopt quantum-safe code as criminals hack AES-256 encryption
My eighth prediction concerns the reaction to the adoption of quantum computing by criminals Read more »
9 Data center carbon emissions surge – can we eliminate spurious workloads?
My nineth prediction concerns potential counter measures to data center carbon emissions from spurious workloads Read more »
10 Governments begin to restrict and even ban social media companies
My tenth prediction concerns the restriction and/or banning of social media when used for evil Read more »
ITCandor’s 2024 predictions – a self-assessment
An assessment of ITCandor's predictions for 2024 Read more »
IBM introduces FlashSystem 5300, Storage Assurance and Flash Grid – a more coherent strategy
My look at IBM Storage announcement of FS5300 hardware, Software Assurance maintenance coverage and Flash Grid Read more »
Storage systems – sales steady, but uncoupled from raw storage growth
A look at the size, growth and major suppliers of storage systems in 2022. Read more »
IBM’s new FlashSystems – better speeds, feeds, integration and cyber protection
IBM today launches a number of market-leading hardware products based on its new, third generation, FlashCore Module. Not content just to keep technically ahead of its competitors, it continues to work hard to integrate these offerings into its wider approach to hybrid multi-cloud computing, its cyber resiliency services and new […] Read more »
IBM Storage launches the FlashSystem 5015, 5035 and 5200
A look at IBM's introduction of the FS5015, FS5035 and FS5200 storage arrays 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 »
IBM radically simplifies its storage offerings in Q1 2020
ITCandor's assessment of IBM storage announcement on Feb 12th 2020 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 »
IBM announces the FlashSystem 9100 – so much more than NVMe
A look at IBM's NVMe-based flash controller and systems Read more »
IBM adds new all-flash hardware to its evolving software defined storage strategy
A look at IBM's storage strategy and August product announcements Read more »
IBM FlashSystem – Argues For Flash-Only Storage Systems
IBM announces its IBM FlashSystem arrays and argues strongly for the use of all-flash storage from a systems perspective Read more »
IBM’s Texas Memory Systems Acquisition – Integration And Virtualisation
Everyone knows SSD/flash memory is disruptive and important, but where to put it? For IBM the answer is to use its TMS acquisition to build it into integrated systems and under its SAN Volume Controller storage hypervisor Read more »