Dell proposes operational cost savings in the data centre by running servers, storage and switches at higher temperatures. Read ITCandor's analysis. Read more »
HP’s Growth Slows – Buys Autonomy, Ponders PC Spin-Off
HP announced its financial results for its Q3 period last week. ITCandor has already assessed market growth for the quarter, which shows it with a 3.2% share of the world IT market. Read this analysis of its acquisition of Autonomy and potential PC spin off. Read more »
IBM Targets HP Itanium/Oracle Users With Multiple Campaigns And Resources
IBM is targeting users of HP Itanium servers and Oracle databases with significant resources, taking part in a competitive battle reminiscent of the 1990s. Read ITCandor's analysis of how this fits with market developments. Read more »
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 »
IBM’s STG Marketing Head Marc Dupaquier On IT Consumerism, Generation Y And Cloud Computing
ITCandor discussed the current market with IBM STG's marketing head Marc Dupaquier. Read our ake on his views about IT consumerism, Smart Computing and the Cloud. Read more »
IBM STG’s Rod Adkins On Smarter Computing, Cloud And The Competition
A small bunch of analysts were lucky enough to have dinner on IBM at Crabtree's Kittle House last week and to be addressed by Rob Adkins, head of STG. Read our take on what he said about the competition, Cloud and Smarter Computing. Read more »
Dell Re-Architects PartnerDirect – Going Against The Stream
Dell traditionally sold directly to customers, but has been building an indirect business since the end of 2007. It's re-architecting its PartnerDirect programme today - adding a new top layer. Read ITCandor'sw analysis of its market position and the challenge of Cloud Computing to the channel. 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 »
IBM Smarter Computing – ‘Big Data In Optimized Systems, Managed As A Cloud’
IBM is ahead of other vendors when it comes to understanding the linkeage between workloads and servers and is learning how to integrate its hardware, software and services into new types of computer. Read ITCandor's analysis of how it is expanding its definition of the system in what it terms 'Smarter Computing'. Read more »
IBM System Z Mips Shows Increased Centralisation And A Return To Growth
ITCandor publishes its initial Mips Model for IBM System z mainframes. It will help you understand how this server business is developing over time. Read more »
Microsoft And HP Deliver Business And Enterprise Apppliances
Microsoft and HP have spent 3 years and $250 million in major collaborative activities. Today they announce 'appliance' strategy and offerings. Read ITCandor's analysis of what it means. Read more »
Symantec Fills Out Appliance Strategy With NetBackup 5200 And FileStore N8300
Symantec continues to build out its appliance strategy, which it sees as a third delivery mechanism alongside software licensing and Cloud Services. Read ITCandor's analysis of the consequences for users and channels. Read more »
ITCandor 2011 Expectations – A Big Year For Cloud, BRIC, High Definition And Water
2011 is going to be a great year for the ITC market. Read ITCandor's 10 'Expectations' for how the market will develop, including detailed views of offerings, countries, channels and vertical markets. Read more »
Symantec Launches Hardware Appliances – A Non-Cloud Form Of IT Simplification
Symantec is entering the hardware market through the introduction of its NetBackup 5000 and Filestore N8000 appliances. ITCandor looks the simplification, integration and channel issues. Read more »
HP Acquires 3Par For $2.35 Billion – Expensive, But Positive, News
HP needs 3Par to improve growth rates in its storage systems business. In this article ITCandor looks at the growth rates of leading suppliers and discusses current trends. Read more »
Intel vPro – In Praise Of Fat Clients
Physical PCs have some interesting and developing advantages over virtual clients. Intel's vPro enhancements will be good for business as long as software companies address its new hardware additions. Read more »
Corporate PC Strategies – Time To Go Virtual?
Large companies have reduced their spending on PCs than other sectors during the recession. ITCandor explains why they look likely to spend on physical and virtual machines in the recovery. 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’s New Opteron 6000 ‘Magny Cours’ Processors In HP, Dell And Acer Server Lines
AMD launched its new Opteron 6000 chips on March 29th 2010 and was endorsed by a number of OEMs. In this article ITCandor looks at the advantages. 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 »