A précis of ITCandor's quarterly tracking of the ITC market in Q2 2017 and the year to the end of June. Read more »
ITC markets down 2% in Q2 2017 – growth worst in the UK (again), best in India
Russia best, UK among the worst in Q2 currency movements
Tracking the value of currencies is an important and continuous process for market researchers working across international regions. You may want to know more about how values have changed in the last year. Read more »
IBM z14 mainframe – sophisticated fixes for enterprise challenges
IBM launched its latest mainframe last week. The z14 will create an upward swing in the never ending see-sawing of the most important single server in the market. My Figure shows z System hardware revenues by quarter (on a rolling 4-quarter basis) with model introductions anchored to the left apart from the […] Read more »
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation – get ready or get busted
There's still just enough time to adjust your processes to address the EU's GDPR before implementation on May 25th 2018 Read more »
Global ITC Q1 2017 – US strong, UK tanks
Insight into regional and major country growth in ITC spending in Q1 2017 Read more »
Global ITC markets stable at $1.4T in Q1 2017
my initial findings for the global ITC market in Q1 2017 Read more »
Atos and the digital transformation factory
Some analysis of Atos as a leading IT Services supplier Read more »
Micron SolidScale – now that’s what I call Big Data!
Micron steps out as a storage systems supplier with the first ever boxed NVMeoF solution Read more »
Violin Memory privatised – the all-flash disruptor disrupted
Some thoughts about the change in company status for Violin Memory. Read more »
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Cloud 2016 – $133b and growing
ITCandor's latest sizing, market share and forecast for cloud computing by type and region Read more »
Storage 2017 – growth at last!
A complete review of the storage systems, disc, NAND and DRAM markets. Read more »
2016 UK IT market up 12% – the Brexit phoney war
A sizing and forecast of the UK IT hardware market. Read more »
Openreach put beyond BT’s reach
BT and Virgin Media are the sole suppliers of fibre optic broadband connections to homes and businesses in the UK and, while Virgin Media connects for its own business, other companies such as Talk Talk, Sky and Vodaphone are forced to use Openreach and have been spending years arguing that it […] Read more »
HPE adds flash and analytics through acquiring Nimble storage
Some thoughts on another acquisition. Read more »
Polycom private since July – please keep us up to date on your success
Another IT privatisation Read more »
Rackspace is private – please keep giving us info!
Customers need financial data on privatised companies. Read more »
Tech Data takes Avnet’s Technology Solutions division – bigger global datacentre capabilities
Thoughts on Tech Data's acquisition of Avnet's Technology Solutions business Read more »
Macom buys Applied Micro for $770m – poor for ARM server development
A potential setback for ARM server developments. Read more »
Q4 2016 currency fluctuations – Egypt, Venezuela and the UK worst; Japan and Brazil best against the $US
The value of world currencies continued to shift significantly against the $US in Q4 2016. My chart shows the change how much more or less a $US would buy you. Read more »