The hardware market will decline by 2.0% overall and only two product types – solid state drives and processors – will grow in 2020 (please note that I have excluded OEM sales from this forecast). Mobile device will be the one on which we spend most, but it will be […] Read more »
7. Wider adoption of 5G allows spending on mobile telecom service to grow
Telecom service will have a good year in 2020, with spending growing by 0.7%. Driving the increase will be the wider adoption of 5G services in mobile telecoms – an area that will grow by 2.8% in the year. The strongest spending growth however will be on Enterprise service (3.8% […] Read more »
8. SaaS and Infrastructure will lead the software market
The software market will grow by 3.0% in 2020 and we will spend more on almost every product type. I expect the strongest spending growth to be on the Software as a Service (SaaS) area, with an increase of 5.1% over the 2019 rate (nevertheless the increase in SaaS spending […] Read more »
10. Governments move against those trading data from social networking
The Web remains broken; a handful of malign actors continue to exploit the privacy of hundreds of million of users every day, selling their data to other suppliers, perverting democracy and creating disruption. 2020 will be a year in which some governments begin to take tougher action. In the EU […] Read more »
ITCandor’s 2019 predictions – a self-assessment
A self-assessment of the predictions I made for 2019 Read more »
Exchange rates v $US in Q3 2019 – Egypt best, Venezuala worst
Some thoughts on changes in the value of international currencies against the $US in Q3 2019 Read more »
Google Sycamore achieves ‘Quantum Supremacy’, but what does that mean?
A look at Google's achievement of 'quantum supremacy' 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 »
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 »
Cloud services $246 billion and still growing at 25%
I look at the latest market developments for cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS and PaaS) Read more »
Microprocessor chip sales $317 billion – highly profitable, but sluggish
I have a look at the microprocessor market in Q2 2019 Read more »
IBM Launches the z15 and LinuxONE III
I look at the z15 at launch Read more »
IBM launches the DS8900F – 2,320k IOPS with encryption built in
I take a look at IBM's new mainframe storage Read more »
Europe ITC – €1.6T revenue, €160B net profit, 6m workers
More stats on ITC in Europe Read more »
Europe ITC market – €2.1 trillion, 9% growth in 2021, but still falling behind
My annual overview of IT and coms markets in Europe by country - uodated! Read more »