ITC spending reaches $1.865 trillion in Q2 2024 – the highest ever total

It may seem a long time ago, but it takes time to assess market movements. In this post I’ll pass on our findings about the size and growth of the ITC market in the second quarter (April to June) 2024. Read more »

Cloud computing – omnes nimbi divisa sunt in partes tres

Cloud computing spending declined for the first time in 2023. It's time to look at its future Read more »

ITC regional and category forecasts – the small growth of a massive, but disaggregating, market

Top level ITCandor's 2023 sizing and 2024-25 forecast for the ITC industry, discussing regions, categories and vendors. Read more »

Cloud computing grows up – $413 billion and counting…

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 »

Networking – converged, converging or eternally independent?

Some sizing and ideas about the networking market and the convergence beyween telecoms and IT markets Read more »

Storage systems 2021 – stable spending in a sea of change

The worldwide storage systems hardware market grew by just 2% in 2021 to reach $34.8 billion, which proved yet again that the success of these products has become increasingly unconnected with that of raw storage, which grew by 19% growth in the year. My Figure above shows total spending by […] Read more »

Mobile devices and international politics

A look at the annual changes and future challenges of the mobile device and smart phone market Read more »

Apple – how much bigger can it grow?

Apple is the largest IT company in the world. It’s revenues were $294 billion in 2020 – the equivalent of everyone alive on the planet spending $26.52 on its offerings. It’s business grew substantially on the introduction of the iPhone, expanded as we recovered from the Credit Crunch and has […] Read more »

IP telephony surges in the politicised network market

Service Provider and Enterprise Networks have been extremely important during the pandemic; nevertheless most Telcos and organizations have been relying on those already installed to keep people, governments and businesses connected. In total the market grew by 1% to $187 billion in the year to the end of March, but […] Read more »