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 »

IBM to split – spinning off its managed service business

Some ideas - with market data and forecasts - on IBM's intention to split itself into 2 companies Read more »

Server market takes a pause in 2019 – still dominated by Windows and x86

A look at the server market in the first half of 2019 from ITCandor's research Read more »

IBM z14 mainframe – sophisticated fixes for enterprise challenges

IBM launched its latest mainframe last week. The z14 will create an upward swing in the never ending see-sawing of the most important single server in the market. My Figure shows z System hardware revenues by quarter (on a rolling 4-quarter basis) with model introductions anchored to the left apart from the […] Read more »