My forecast for hard disk drive, NAND and DRAM markets following two ywars of steep decline Read more »
The raw storage market returns to growth… will it be ‘exponential’?
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 »
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 »
Mobile devices and international politics
A look at the annual changes and future challenges of the mobile device and smart phone market 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 »
Peripherals – a $245b market with a Japanese flavour
A look at the market for peripherals (including printers) in 2019 Read more »
Computer peripherals – new strategies for a maturing market
A look at the market for computer peripherals and printers in the year to the end of June 2019 Read more »
PC market maturity drives new supplier business models
A report of the state of the PC market in Q2 2019 with market shares and evidence of maturity 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 »
PCs in Q2 2108 – good growth in a market dominated by smart devices
PCs have been at the heart of access to the Internet and wider digital marketplace for many years. Despite falling behind smart phones in recent years it is still a major component of the ITC industry. In the year to the end of June 2018 236m PCs worth $163b were shipped, […] Read more »
Servers – new processor growth and the American bias
a new look at the global server market Read more »
Storage systems down, disk drives up, solid state booms in Q2 2017
A post on the latest Q2 2017 market growth, shares and successes of the raw and systems storage. Read more »
The year to June 2017 $76b server market primed for big growth
A précis of our server market sresearch Read more »
Enterprise network sales slip 5.6% in Q1 2016
More market shares - this time on enterprise and service provider networks Read more »
Storage systems down 2.5% in Q1 2016 – long term decline causes widespread consolidation
Storage systems markets continue to wane Read more »
Storage systems down 5% in 2015
Some market stats on the storage systems and component markets Read more »
The Server market stays level in Q3 2015
A summary of the major movements in the server market Read more »
The enterprise hardware market falls 2.1% in Q2 2015 – is going server-centric
A review of the movements in this important IT market Read more »