A look at AMD's target markets for its new embedded processors. Read more »
AMD expands its x86 embedded processor lines – a targeted market approach
WD buys SanDisk – can you have your cake and eat it?
Storage supplier consolidation thoughts Read more »
AMD ‘Magny Cours’ Processors Endorsed By HP, Dell And Acer At Launch
AMD lanuches its 'Magny Cours' server chips today. There use is being endorsed by most x86 server vendors including HP, Dell and Acer. In this report ITCandor discusses the effects on the server market. Read more »
AMD SeaMicro’s Head-Start In Microserver Markets
We talked to Andrew Feldman, co-founder of SeaMicro and now Corporate VP and GM of AMD's Server Business about the SM15000 microserver. Read more »
ARM In Servers – Hyperscale Or Hyperbole?
What are the chances of success for ARM chips in servers? We weigh up the pros and cons Read more »
Server Markets Jump Up 7.5% In Q4 2012
The server market grew by 7.5% in Q4 2012, despite a slight fall in 2012 overall. have a look at our market shares and forecast Read more »
AMD Announces Open 3.0 – Modular Server Motherboards For Large Workloads
AMD has announced Open 3.0 - a standard x86 server motherboard designed for large single workloads and sitting between generic and self-built machines Read more »
AMD APUs – How Balanced Systems Will Transform The PC Market
AMD has lunched a full set of APU chips which incorporate CPU, GPU and Northbridge components. Read ITCandor's views of its competitive position and the important changes this will make to the PC market, 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 »
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 »
Server Choices – Why Chips, Form Factors, Architectures And Workloads Matter
The differences between chips, form factors, architectures and workloads are essential to understand when choosing to buy a server. ITCandor looks at the differences and relationships Read more »
AMD’s New Opteron 6000 ‘Magny Cours’ Processors In HP, Dell And Acer Server Lines
AMD launched its new Opteron 6000 chips on March 29th 2010 and was endorsed by a number of OEMs. In this article ITCandor looks at the advantages. 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 »
Electricity Price Arbitrage In Cloud And Other Data Centre Location Decisions
The price of electricity will play a growing role in the decision about where to site future large data centres. In this article Martin discusses the issue brought up by Microsoft's David McCann. Read more »
The World Server Market – A Forecast To Recovery
The server market has undergone a dramatic fall over the last year. In this analyst report Martin give a forecast for the recovery. Read more »
IBM System X – An Integrated x86 Approach From The Fullest Range Vendor
IBM invited a number of analysts over to Avenet's office to discuss System x. Martin's written it up, adding data from his own research. Read more »
AMD’s New ‘Vision’ Marketing Addresses Consumer Usage, Not Raw Technology
AMD announced its Vision strategy for consumer laptops on September 10th. Martin analyses its chances of success in changing the game in marketing for use as opposed to raw technology. Read more »
The Xen Cloud Platform Initiative Aims For Open Source Links Between Private And Public Cloud Computing
Xen.org is developing Open Source means of connecting private and public Cloud Computing. In this analyst report Martin talks about the challenges data centre managers have in addressing these developments, while pointing out the importance of virtualisation and this developing ecosystem. Read more »
Apple’s Revenue Grew In Calendar Q109 – Can It Ride Out The Downturn?
Apple has beaten almost all other vendors by posting a modest increase in its calendar Q109 (F209) revenues. In this analysis Martin looks at the reasons for success, compares it with other PC companies and talks about the unique strategy. Read more »
IBM’s Q109 Results – The Benefits Of Big Customers and Long Contracts
Martin analyses IBM's latest financial results and concludes that its relative success is down to its customer and contract types. Outsourcing, cloud computing and CSR get a look in too. Read more »