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 »

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 »

The Sanctuary Group – Successful Virtual Client Deployment In A Large Dispersed Enterprise

The Sanctuary Group is a large 'social landlord' charity based in the UK. It has long and successful experience of deploying virtualisation - especially Terminal Services. Ben Andrews has some excellent observations for those of us considering the future of the corporate desktop. 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 »

FNZ’s ‘Platform As A Service’ Offering – Wholesale Wealth Management And Cloud Computing

FNZ provides an aggreagator service for Financial Services companies in the Wealth Management area. In this article Martin describes why this is important to the development of Cloud Computing. Read more »

Quest Software – Targeting The Management and Monitoring Of Private Cloud Computing

Quest Software's Joe Baguley was the first to volunteer to be interviewed as part of Martin's research into Cloud Computing. He has interesting observations on Quest's approach, as well as Microsoft's Azure platform. 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 »

Cloud Computing – A Growth Business In The Downturn

In this first of a series of Themes, Martin describes and defines Cloud Computing from the point of view of user and supplier participants. He calls for reactions in order to provide future profiles. His conclusion is that Cloud Computing is good in a downturn. For a powerpoint presentation of this blog see http://tinyurl.com/ryk3n2. 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 »