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

Storage systems markets continue to wane Read more »

Converged Infrastructure And The $299 Billion Data Centre Market

Before you can predict the opportunity for converged infrastructure you need to start by calculating the data centre market. Read ITCandor's assessment, complete with sizing and market shares. Read more »

LV 1871 Uses IBM Virtualisation For Consolidation, Cost Savings And Productivity Improvement

LV 1871 is a medium sized mutual insurer based in Munich. It has implemented virtualisation in its data centre, achieving performance, quality and cost benefits. Read ITCandor's analysis of its strategy. Read more »

Cisco – John Chambers Outlines Strategies And Direction At Cisco Live! And C-Scape

Cisco's CEO John Chambers presented the company's strategy and values at Cisco Live! and its C-Scape analyst meeting held in London's Excel conference centre this week. Read ITCandor's analysis of its challenges going forward. Read more »

Virtustream – Delivering Advanced Managed Services Via Cloud Computing And IaaS

Virtustream are a long term provider of IaaS and Cloud Computing - offering ERP and other mission critical services. Their partnerships include Jersey Telecom. They're very important as the first of a new type of Cloud managed service provider. Read more »

‘Matrix Integration’ And Its Effects On The IT Industry

ITCandor introduces a new theme - Matrix Integration. In this analyst report Martin talks about long term changes to vendor strategies and approaches and sees commonality in recent movements away from horizontal integration. Read more »

Vision Solutions Double-Take Software Steps Into Cloud Computing With Amazon EC2 – Promises ‘Recovery as a Service’

Double-Take Software are partnering with Amazon's EC2 to take the first steps towards providing 'Recovery as a Service'. In this interview with Peter Laudenslager Martin outlines the approach. Read more »

EMC Grows Quarterly Revenues 2% To $4.2 Billion – Focuses On Acquisitions And Cloud

EMC has posted positive revenue growth for the first time in a year. Martin describes how it has engaged in acquisition activity since buying Data Domain and how it is developing its approach to Cloud Computing. Read more »

Fujitsu Technology Solutions Strategy Offers Cloud Computing And Dynamic Infrastructures

Fujitsu Technology Solutions (FTS) hosted its Visit 09 conference in Munich in November. In this report Martin outlines its strategy and gives his opinions. Read more »

How Will Microsoft Adjust Its Strategy To Survive The ITC Downturn?

Microsoft is planning its new strategy in the last month of its financial year. In this piece Martin forecasts what will be in it it and give some advice on how it can survivie the ITC downturn 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 »