IBM’s Q4 2019 announcements – storage for the AI and container workloads you want to run

Following closely on the heels of the DS8900 launch last month, IBM announced some major storage products (both hardware and software) today at the TechU conference in Prague. My analysis here is based not only on briefing material from Eric Herzog and his team, but also from my visit to […] Read more »

Storage systems down 2.5% in Q1 2016 – long term decline causes widespread consolidation

Storage systems markets continue to wane Read more »

2016 prediction 6 – Raw storage and services drive Big Data growth

For an update to this data please click here. Over the last few years there’s been shift in spending away from storage arrays and towards raw storage. I expect this to continue in 2016. In total the market will grow by 2% to $115B, with the strongest growth in raw […] Read more »

IBM Security – A Stitch In Time Saves Nine

In a complex, fragmented market with over 500 players IBM has a full and well thought out approach to IT security. We spent a day finding out. Read more »

IBM’s Texas Memory Systems Acquisition – Integration And Virtualisation

Everyone knows SSD/flash memory is disruptive and important, but where to put it? For IBM the answer is to use its TMS acquisition to build it into integrated systems and under its SAN Volume Controller storage hypervisor 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 »