IBM and VMware work together on storage and server hypervisors, addressing advanced virtualisation issues for enterprise customers. Read ITCandor's analysis. Read more »
World Server Market Down 2% To $14.6B In Q3 2011
Server Highlights Q3 2011 Revenues declined by 2% year on year in Q3 Unit shipments grew by 3% Total server market revenues were $64.1 billion in the year to the end of September x86 server revenues were $43.0 billion Installed Base grew to 4.13 million Read more »
Kaseya Addresses Smart Devices In Corporate Networks WIth Mobile Device Management
Managing smart phones and tablets is a growing issue for MSPs and enterprises alike. Read ITCandor's analysis of Kaseya's approach. Read more »
IBM’s Sean Finnan – CIOs, Country Demand And Cloud Computing
ITCandor reports an interesting conversatioin with IBM's Sean Finnan, VP and GM of GTS in its NE IOT. Read more »
HP CEO Door Revolves – Goodbye Léo, Hello Meg
HP announces a change of boss. Read ITCandor's assessment of its challenges and opportunities. Read more »
Server Market Forecast – Cloud Computing And The Coming Recession
Read ITCandor's precis of its latest sizing and forecast of the world server market. Read more »
HP’s Growth Slows – Buys Autonomy, Ponders PC Spin-Off
HP announced its financial results for its Q3 period last week. ITCandor has already assessed market growth for the quarter, which shows it with a 3.2% share of the world IT market. Read this analysis of its acquisition of Autonomy and potential PC spin off. Read more »
IBM’s Cloud Computing Reference Model – Customer-Focused And Clear
IBM has published its Cloud Computing reference model, which encompasses the infrastructure from which it provides customers with CLoud services. Read ITCandor's detailed analysis. Read more »
HP Hybrid Delivery Solutions – Agility Solutions For Cloud Builders
HP has announced a number of services to help Cloud building customers, many of whom are service providers and Telecoms suppliers. Read ITCandor's analysis, complete with a table of HP's reference customers. Read more »
Dell Launches vStart Private Cloud Bundles Through The Channel
Bundled Cloud solutions, Dell and the channel - what are the chances of success? Read ITCandor's analysis. Read more »
AvePoint – Adding Infrastructure Management to Microsoft SharePoint
AvePoint works at adding value to Microsoft Sharepoint collaboration software. Read ITCandor's take on the company and its activities. Read more »
IBM’s STG Marketing Head Marc Dupaquier On IT Consumerism, Generation Y And Cloud Computing
ITCandor discussed the current market with IBM STG's marketing head Marc Dupaquier. Read our ake on his views about IT consumerism, Smart Computing and the Cloud. Read more »
LV 1871 Uses IBM Virtualisation For Consolidation, Cost Savings And Productivity Improvement
LV 1871 is a medium sized mutual insurer based in Munich. It has implemented virtualisation in its data centre, achieving performance, quality and cost benefits. Read ITCandor's analysis of its strategy. Read more »
IBM STG’s Rod Adkins On Smarter Computing, Cloud And The Competition
A small bunch of analysts were lucky enough to have dinner on IBM at Crabtree's Kittle House last week and to be addressed by Rob Adkins, head of STG. Read our take on what he said about the competition, Cloud and Smarter Computing. Read more »
Dell Re-Architects PartnerDirect – Going Against The Stream
Dell traditionally sold directly to customers, but has been building an indirect business since the end of 2007. It's re-architecting its PartnerDirect programme today - adding a new top layer. Read ITCandor'sw analysis of its market position and the challenge of Cloud Computing to the channel. Read more »
Racemi Launches Dynacenter 4.0 – More Help With Moving Cloud Workloads
Racemi adds transferability of images between Amazon EC2, Rackspace and Terremark as part of its Dynacenter 4 announcement. ITCandor assesses its importance for those moving to Cloud based services. Read more »
Intel Strategy – Tick Tock, System On Chip, Atom, Security And Servers
Intel is one of the most important vendors in the ITC industry and yet is hard to understand - not least because of its need to predict distant user needs. Read ITCandor's analysis of its current strategy, complete with some admissions about what we got right and wrong over many years of forecasting. Read more »
Silverdell Adopts Virtual Desktop Solution From ITMS – Uses 2X Software
Silverdell - a medium-sized UK company working in the management of hazardous waste - has adopted virtualisation services from ITMS using components such as those from 2X Software. In this interview John Abrahams talks about the benefits and positioning of having someone else run your IT. Read more »
Centrix Software – Application Discovery For Cloud Computing
Understanding software assets is an essential first step when considering a move to pay-as-you-go or Cloud services from traditional licenses. Read ITCandor's assessment of how Cnetrix hopes to help. Read more »
IBM Global Services Launches Building Block Outsourcing – A Bridge To Cloud Computing
IBM announced a new building block approach to its outsourcing business today. Read ITCandor's analysis of the implications, comparisons and chances for success. Read more »