My look at the worldwide PC market and its drivers Read more »
Windows versions or world events – what drives the PC market?
Raw storage sales grow 22% to $241b in the year to September 2025
A look of the growing sales of raw storage devices in 2025 Read more »
Q3 2025 – The ITC boom continues – spending up 8%!
A look at the tremendous growth in the world ITC market in Q3 2025 Read more »
The €243B EU IT hardware market – dominated by foreign suppliers
Why do foreign suppliers dominate the EU IT hardware market and what can it do aout it? Read more »
The mix of domestic v foreign supply into the US IT hardware market
A look at the mix of domestic and foreign vendors in the US IT and hardware markets. Read more »
$2 Trillion spent on ICT in Q225 – a new quarterly record
My review of the spending and profit growth of the ITC industry in Q2 2025 by offering, supplier and country Read more »
IBM’s new z/OS 3.2 unlocks the advanced features of the z/17
IBM launches z/OS 3.2 - an operating sytem to unlock the advanced features of its z/17 mainframe Read more »
HPE finally acquires Juniper for a livelier enterprise network business
HPE's acquisition of Juniper is finally over the line. I look at the consequences for the network market Read more »
Q1 2025 – The ITC market continues to boom despite trade tarrifs
A look at Q1 2025 ITC market growth by offering, supplier and country Read more »
IBM-Nvidia’s partnership addresses fully integrated AI applications
Nvidia has enjoyed a massive increase in revenues over the last couple of years as server and public cloud suppliers rush to address AI applications by coupling its GPUs into x86 servers. Seemingly IBM missed the boat – offloading its System x business to Lenovo in October 2013 – just […] Read more »
IBM launches the z17 mainframe – supreme AI, I/O and security
How IBM's z17 mainframe positioned at launch Read more »
The ITC market grows 6% in Q424 to $1.98 trillion
ITCandor's comprehensive analysis of spending growth in the ITC industry in Q4 2024 for vendors, countries and offerings. Read more »
IBM Power Virtual Server for RISE with SAP – cloudification for long-term ERP customers
A look at the latest offerings for SAP ERP customers using IBM Power and PowerVS servers. Read more »
Lenovo to acquire Infinidat – a better storage strategy at a politically challenging time
My first analysis of Lenovo's announcement to acquire Infinidat Read more »
4 Hardware spending will stay ahead of Software in 2025
My fourth prediction concerns spending growth by category Read more »
5 Spending on servers will grow most – on peripherals least – in 2025
My fifth prediction cconcerns spending growth by offering in 2025 Read more »
8 Users rush to adopt quantum-safe code as criminals hack AES-256 encryption
My eighth prediction concerns the reaction to the adoption of quantum computing by criminals Read more »
The world ITC market grows 5% to reach $1.9 trillion in Q3 2024
As I predicted last quarter the Information Technology and Communications market continues to grow. In total revenues reached $1.9 trillion (the highest of any quarter in history) in the quarter and $7.4 trillion in the year to the end of September – up 5% and 3% respectively. Net profit, however […] Read more »
IBM announces Telum II – the processor for its next generation mainframe
A look at IBM's Telum II's features and implications for z17 due to be launched in 2025 Read more »
IBM introduces Power Virtual Server as an on-premise pod cloud option
A first look at IBM's on-premise Power Virtual Server pod products and strategy Read more »