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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Mobile device market down 8% to $392b – what’s the next big thing?

We look at the state of play in the mobile device market in Q2 2019 Read more »

Microprocessor chip sales $317 billion – highly profitable, but sluggish

I have a look at the microprocessor market in Q2 2019 Read more »

Huawei at the centre of the global/national 5G battlefield

5G mobile communications will be faster, deeper and wider than 4G, enabling new applications and is being tested in many countries planning to deploy in the next few years. Huawei is the world’s biggest supplier of Service Provider networks and leading developer and supplier of 5G base stations used by […] Read more »