The printer market – where do we go from here?

The printer market entered yet another phase of decline as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 customers spent $33 billion (down 10%) on 143 million printers (down 11%), while the total installed base dropped 4% to 577 million. 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 »

Storage systems – 1.8ZB shipped, $33.4b spent in 2019

A sizing of the storage systems and raw storage markets in 2019 Read more »

Servers – $75.6 spent on 21.3 systems in 2019

A look at the server market in 2019 including shares for suppliers, operating systems and virtualization status. Read more »

The ITC market’s top suppliers – a 10-year perspective

Having made my predictions for the year, I wanted to follow up with the long-term vendor share developments in the ITC industry. In the Figure above I show market shares for the top 12 suppliers in the years to then of September in 2009 and 2019. There have been a […] Read more »

Computer peripherals – new strategies for a maturing market

A look at the market for computer peripherals and printers in the year to the end of June 2019 Read more »

PC market maturity drives new supplier business models

A report of the state of the PC market in Q2 2019 with market shares and evidence of maturity Read more »

Storage systems – calm in a stormy storage sea

Some stats and thoughts about the storage systems market in the first half of 2019 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 »

Network spending at $186b – service providers beat enterprise customers

A look at ITCandor's latest findings for the service provider and enterprise network markets to Q2 2019 Read more »

Storage sales $199b in 2018 – exponential capacity growth, increasing software control

A look at the balance between raw and system storage markets Read more »