The ITC market was once new, offering potential savings in automation and productivity enhancement for early adopters. By 2024 it has become an essential part of almost every product and service we purchase. The market is so large that its size and growth is bound to be tied to the […] Read more »
2. ITC spending growth will be bigger in Asia Pacific; EMEA will perform better than the Americas
At a regional level I expect ITC sales in 2024 to grow by 2% in Asia Pacific. I expect sales to very slightly in both the Americas and EMEA since, although there are many immature markets in both, they are dominated by the USA and Western European countries respectively which […] Read more »
BlueChip – putting the ‘International’ into Service Express
A look at the acquisition of BlueChip by Service Express International 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 »
ITCandor – a journey through Q2 2018 IT markets
PRESS RELEASE – Didcot, October 19, 2018 Strong ITC market growth in Q2 2018 In the last couple of weekswe’ve published the following research posts covering Q2 2018 and the full year to the end of June: PC, Mobile device, Peripheral, Gaming console, Microprocessor Network, Server, Storage, Cloud computing, IT […] Read more »
ITCandor 2017 predictions – political and social uncertainty limit ITC market growth
Happy New Year and welcome to my dystopian predictions! Read more »
2017 prediction 1 – more market growth, more commoditisation
The worldwide ITC market will grow 1.5% on 2017. Read more »
2017 prediction 2 – oil producing countries back on tap or sales growth
Japan will grow most, Russia least; oil producing countries will return to growth. Read more »
2017 prediction 4 – Blockchain and the arrival of digital disintermediation
Blockchain systems are going to be big news in 2017. Read more »
2017 prediction 7 – suppliers will rethink mega-theme marketing
Smart vendors will move away from increasingly irrelevant marketing messaging. Read more »
2017 prediction 6 – social disaffection threatens the hyper-globalised ITC market
SOcial and political dissatisfaction will make the globalised ITC industry harder for big vendors. Read more »
IBM Edge 2016 – balancing systems and cloud services
Some thoughts on balancing cloud v systems revenues at IBM Read more »
2015 predictions – how did we do?
It’s that time of the year again when I make predictions for the new year. As always I’m starting of with a self assessment of last year’s expectations. It was a funny year – especially as strong regional growth was wiped out at an international level by the fall of […] Read more »
Will The UK Government CRC Changes Push Data Centres Out?
CRC Change Highlights The creation of CRCEES as a pure tax punishes industrial companies in general and data centres in particular It moves the issue off the CSR agenda and out of the board room Those companies already paying the CLL will be taxed twice Other EU countries are delaying […] Read more »