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 »
Japanese Cloud Computing – Massive Growth To ¥8.5T ($103B) By 2015
The Japanese Cloud Computing market is different - less dominated by large US companies and with different cultural expectations. Read ITCandor's latest sizing, forecast and analysis. Read more »
2X Software – Fixing Back-End Issues For Desktop Virtualisation And Cloud Computing
Desktop and application virtualisation can be very difficult for users to implement. Read ITCandor's interview with 2X Software, which understands the underlying infrastructure challenges and offers cost effective software. Read more »
Cisco – John Chambers Outlines Strategies And Direction At Cisco Live! And C-Scape
Cisco's CEO John Chambers presented the company's strategy and values at Cisco Live! and its C-Scape analyst meeting held in London's Excel conference centre this week. Read ITCandor's analysis of its challenges going forward. Read more »
ITCandor 2011 Expectations – A Big Year For Cloud, BRIC, High Definition And Water
2011 is going to be a great year for the ITC market. Read ITCandor's 10 'Expectations' for how the market will develop, including detailed views of offerings, countries, channels and vertical markets. Read more »
Virtustream – Delivering Advanced Managed Services Via Cloud Computing And IaaS
Virtustream are a long term provider of IaaS and Cloud Computing - offering ERP and other mission critical services. Their partnerships include Jersey Telecom. They're very important as the first of a new type of Cloud managed service provider. Read more »
The Comparative Benefits Of Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds
Looking for a way of evaluating the benefits of Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Computing? ITCandor offers a model to act as a starting point. Read more »
PalmTree’s LiveEnsure – Cloud Computing SaaS Authentication
PalmTree has just launched LiveEnsure - entering the SaaS market with a service designed to provide lower prices for Cloud Computing developers. ITCandor also discovered the new strategy came as a result of the credit crunch. Read more »
Symantec Launches Hardware Appliances – A Non-Cloud Form Of IT Simplification
Symantec is entering the hardware market through the introduction of its NetBackup 5000 and Filestore N8000 appliances. ITCandor looks the simplification, integration and channel issues. Read more »
The Sanctuary Group – Successful Virtual Client Deployment In A Large Dispersed Enterprise
The Sanctuary Group is a large 'social landlord' charity based in the UK. It has long and successful experience of deploying virtualisation - especially Terminal Services. Ben Andrews has some excellent observations for those of us considering the future of the corporate desktop. Read more »
NGD’s Data Centre Goes 100% Alternative Energy Supply With SmartestEnergy
NGD has signed a deal with SmartestEnergy to provide electricity only from renewable generation at its data centre site in Wales. ITCandor looks at this from government and CSR perspectives. Read more »
Intel vPro – In Praise Of Fat Clients
Physical PCs have some interesting and developing advantages over virtual clients. Intel's vPro enhancements will be good for business as long as software companies address its new hardware additions. Read more »
Fujitsu Opens ‘London North’ Data Centre And Launches IaaS Services
Fujitsu has a new award-winning data centre in the UK. Designated 'London North' it is the first in Europe to attain the Uptime Institute's Tier III accreditation. It is also launching IaaS Cloud computing services. Read more »
Racemi’s Image-Based Provisioning Ripe For Cloud Computing
The growth of virtualisation and Cloud Computing means that server images need to be constantly lifted and moved about a data centre, to the Cloud and back. Racemi is a specialist software expert in the area of Image-Based Provisioning. Read this article based on an interview with CEO Lawrence Guillory to learn more. Read more »
Fujitsu’s Cloud Computing Strategy – A Vision For The Networked Society
Fujitsu has come up with a strong Cloud Computing strategy. In this article ITCandor provides a commentary. Read more »
Corporate PC Strategies – Time To Go Virtual?
Large companies have reduced their spending on PCs than other sectors during the recession. ITCandor explains why they look likely to spend on physical and virtual machines in the recovery. Read more »
AMD Outlines The Developing Web Hosting And Cloud Computing Ecosystem
There are three streams of development for Cloud Computing - Lamp, Azure and JAVA. In this analyst report ITCandor shows the evolving ecosystem, with help from AMD. Read more »