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 »

IBM extends its deep storage capabilities to Microsoft Azure users

IBM’s storage group’s strategy seeks to support customers in their use of multiple data centers, whether on premises or in public clouds – and whether using IBM products or others. It wants to make it easier and more efficient for them; but to do so it has mastered a number […] Read more »

The worldwide server market – hedged in by cloud, but still vital

The server market is vital for enterprise and SMEs, supporting vital workloads, but growth appears to have stalled. No doubt spending would be much higher if the self-built systems of the largest cloud computing weren’t continuing to eat up commercial workloads. Within the market the leading vendors – Dell EMC […] Read more »

Cloud computing at $344b – the Enterprise IT market squeeze continues

A look at the status of the cloud services market complete with market shares and forecasts 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 »

Cloud computing – 18% growth to $260b in the year to March 2020

A look at cloud computing spending growth, market shares and forecasts in Q1 2020 Read more »

5. IT Services spending grows most on IaaS and PaaS cloud services, while other offerings ‘flat line’

There will continue to be major differences in spending growth on IT Services, which I predict will grow 1.8% overall. Leading the charge will be IaaS and PaaS cloud services, which I predict will grow by 23.9% and 16.6% respectively in 2020. Of the other offerings implementation will remain the […] Read more »

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 »