AMD APUs – How Balanced Systems Will Transform The PC Market

AMD has lunched a full set of APU chips which incorporate CPU, GPU and Northbridge components. Read ITCandor's views of its competitive position and the important changes this will make to the PC market, Read more »

Intel Strategy – Tick Tock, System On Chip, Atom, Security And Servers

Intel is one of the most important vendors in the ITC industry and yet is hard to understand - not least because of its need to predict distant user needs. Read ITCandor's analysis of its current strategy, complete with some admissions about what we got right and wrong over many years of forecasting. Read more »

Server Choices – Why Chips, Form Factors, Architectures And Workloads Matter

The differences between chips, form factors, architectures and workloads are essential to understand when choosing to buy a server. ITCandor looks at the differences and relationships 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 »

The Xen Cloud Platform Initiative Aims For Open Source Links Between Private And Public Cloud Computing

Xen.org is developing Open Source means of connecting private and public Cloud Computing. In this analyst report Martin talks about the challenges data centre managers have in addressing these developments, while pointing out the importance of virtualisation and this developing ecosystem. Read more »

Apple’s Revenue Grew In Calendar Q109 – Can It Ride Out The Downturn?

Apple has beaten almost all other vendors by posting a modest increase in its calendar Q109 (F209) revenues. In this analysis Martin looks at the reasons for success, compares it with other PC companies and talks about the unique strategy. Read more »

IBM’s Q109 Results – The Benefits Of Big Customers and Long Contracts

Martin analyses IBM's latest financial results and concludes that its relative success is down to its customer and contract types. Outsourcing, cloud computing and CSR get a look in too. Read more »