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 »
The software market booms in 2021 – $1.4b revenue, 11% growth, 24% profitability
A summary of the market trends and shares of the worldwide software market from 2013 to 2021 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 »
American suppliers increase their combined global ITC market share to over 50%
American suppliers combined will increase their market share of the world market to over 50% for the first time in years in 2022. 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 »
How the pandemic is changing the PC market
Some notes on the important role of PCs during the pandemic with market shares and forecasts 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 »
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 »
IBM Launches the z15 and LinuxONE III
I look at the z15 at launch Read more »
IBM launches the DS8900F – 2,320k IOPS with encryption built in
I take a look at IBM's new mainframe storage Read more »