IBM is targeting users of HP Itanium servers and Oracle databases with significant resources, taking part in a competitive battle reminiscent of the 1990s. Read ITCandor's analysis of how this fits with market developments. Read more »
IBM’s STG Marketing Head Marc Dupaquier On IT Consumerism, Generation Y And Cloud Computing
ITCandor discussed the current market with IBM STG's marketing head Marc Dupaquier. Read our ake on his views about IT consumerism, Smart Computing and the Cloud. Read more »
LV 1871 Uses IBM Virtualisation For Consolidation, Cost Savings And Productivity Improvement
LV 1871 is a medium sized mutual insurer based in Munich. It has implemented virtualisation in its data centre, achieving performance, quality and cost benefits. Read ITCandor's analysis of its strategy. Read more »
IBM STG’s Rod Adkins On Smarter Computing, Cloud And The Competition
A small bunch of analysts were lucky enough to have dinner on IBM at Crabtree's Kittle House last week and to be addressed by Rob Adkins, head of STG. Read our take on what he said about the competition, Cloud and Smarter Computing. 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 »
IBM Smarter Computing – ‘Big Data In Optimized Systems, Managed As A Cloud’
IBM is ahead of other vendors when it comes to understanding the linkeage between workloads and servers and is learning how to integrate its hardware, software and services into new types of computer. Read ITCandor's analysis of how it is expanding its definition of the system in what it terms 'Smarter Computing'. Read more »
IBM System Z Mips Shows Increased Centralisation And A Return To Growth
ITCandor publishes its initial Mips Model for IBM System z mainframes. It will help you understand how this server business is developing over time. Read more »
IBM And Red Hat Talk Up KVM, Linux And Cloud
KVM is an important hypervisor and will compete storngly with VMWare and Microsoft now it has been incorporated in Red Hat's RHEV product. Read this report about IBM and Red Hat's promotion of Linux and KVM, as well as ITCandor's views of the state of Open Source software. 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 »
HP Acquires 3Par For $2.35 Billion – Expensive, But Positive, News
HP needs 3Par to improve growth rates in its storage systems business. In this article ITCandor looks at the growth rates of leading suppliers and discusses current trends. 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 »
IBM Expands Its Cloud Computing Offerings – Highlights The Differences In Regional Adoption
On March 16th 2010 IBM announced new Cloud Computing services and resources. ITCandor analyses what they mean in terms of the development of this important market. Read more »
‘Matrix Integration’ And Its Effects On The IT Industry
ITCandor introduces a new theme - Matrix Integration. In this analyst report Martin talks about long term changes to vendor strategies and approaches and sees commonality in recent movements away from horizontal integration. Read more »
IBM Buys Initiate Systems – Increases Focus On HealthCare, SaaS And Information Management
IBM announced its acquisition of Initiate Systems. Martin analysis what it's buying and why. Read more »
Cloud Computing – An Essential Subject For CIOs In 2010
Addressing Cloud Computing is hard and yet it will be a difficult subject for CIOs to avoid in 2010. Martin explains why and offers a free evaluation service to help. Read more »
Refurbish, Recycle, Repurpose – New Roles For ITC Equipment In A Downturn
Martin looks at the role of the disposal channel in the downturn and concludes that second user equipment is growin in importance. 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 »