Cloud computing has been one of the fastest growing and exciting IT markets over the past decade. Typically bought by enterprises wanting to avoid the complexity of setting up, deploying and managing applications them in their own data centers, cloud services come in three flavours – software, platform and infrastructure […] Read more »
IBM LinuxONE – beats x86 servers for environmental sustainability
The way data centers are built, populated with equipment and run is key to the world’s attempts to combat climate change. The pandemic has made more of our financial, social and work interactions digital, which can be witnessed in worldwide spending trends (my Figure above gives the trends and my […] Read more »
Cloud computing – 18% growth to $260b in the year to March 2020
A look at cloud computing spending growth, market shares and forecasts in Q1 2020 Read more »
Servers – $75.6 spent on 21.3 systems in 2019
A look at the server market in 2019 including shares for suppliers, operating systems and virtualization status. 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 »
Cloud wash 2019 – investment costs spiral; the bubble bursts for some
My 5th prediction concerns growing problems for cloud suppliers in 2019 Read more »
IBM Storage October 2018 – Gen3 V7000, Spectrum Discover launched
A review of IBM Storage division's Q3 2018 announcements Read more »
The rise, rise, rise of cloud computing
An update on the growth and market shares of cloud computing by type, region and in context with other areas of enterprise IT spending Read more »
Cisco, HP, Dell – cloud service laggards, falling enterprise IT market shares
Hoe leading cloud vendors are positioned Read more »
The 2025 enterprise computing forecast – cloud wins hands-down
My enterprise computing forecast including a masive victory for cloud computing. Read more »
Cloud 2016 – $133b and growing
ITCandor's latest sizing, market share and forecast for cloud computing by type and region Read more »
2017 prediction 7 – suppliers will rethink mega-theme marketing
Smart vendors will move away from increasingly irrelevant marketing messaging. Read more »
IBM Edge 2016 – balancing systems and cloud services
Some thoughts on balancing cloud v systems revenues at IBM Read more »
Cloud computing – whose resources and where?
Another attempt to define cloud computing and its adoption by medium and large organisations Read more »
Cloud Computing in EMEA reaches €29.9B in 2015
Some stats on cloud computing in EMEA with market shares and forecasts to 2020 Read more »
Cloud services grow 20% in 2015 to reach $107B
A look at cloud services market shares and forecasts Read more »
2016 prediction 7 – Cloud Computing continues to surge – SaaS is the star
Cloud computing will grow by 13% to reach $354B. The strongest growth will be in SaaS (26.3%), which we count as part of the software market. IT services engage to build and manage private, public and hybrid clouds will grow by 16.3%, PaaS by 7.7% and IaaS by 8.1%. The […] Read more »
Cloud services suffer massive regional currency discrepancies
Big differences between local and $US revenue growth in Asia Pacific and EMEA cloud services Read more »
Avere – more progress in NAS storage reinvention
getting up to date with Avere's edge filer approach Read more »
Consolidate, Virtualise, Integrate, Cloudify – The New Data Centre Imperatives
Why not have a look at our latest presentation of the new data centre imperatives Read more »