A sizing of the storage systems and raw storage markets in 2019 Read more »
Storage systems – 1.8ZB shipped, $33.4b spent in 2019
IBM radically simplifies its storage offerings in Q1 2020
ITCandor's assessment of IBM storage announcement on Feb 12th 2020 Read more »
6. The only hardware spending growth will be on solid state disks and processors
The hardware market will decline by 2.0% overall and only two product types – solid state drives and processors – will grow in 2020 (please note that I have excluded OEM sales from this forecast). Mobile device will be the one on which we spend most, but it will be […] Read more »
9. Raw storage shipments exceed 2 Zetabytes
Spending on raw storage (which in this case includes OEM shipments) declined by 24% to $172 billion in 2019 following two years of strong growth (37% in 2017 and 18% in 2018); nevertheless shipped capacity continued to increase, reaching 1.683 Zetabytes. While the creation of new products with much larger […] Read more »
IBM’s Q4 2019 announcements – storage for the AI and container workloads you want to run
Following closely on the heels of the DS8900 launch last month, IBM announced some major storage products (both hardware and software) today at the TechU conference in Prague. My analysis here is based not only on briefing material from Eric Herzog and his team, but also from my visit to […] Read more »
Storage systems – calm in a stormy storage sea
Some stats and thoughts about the storage systems market in the first half of 2019 Read more »
Network spending at $186b – service providers beat enterprise customers
A look at ITCandor's latest findings for the service provider and enterprise network markets to Q2 2019 Read more »
Infrastructure software – largest part of enterprise and second largest software category
A look at the growing market for infrastructure software as part of both the enterprise IT and software markets. Read more »
IBM launches the DS8900F – 2,320k IOPS with encryption built in
I take a look at IBM's new mainframe storage Read more »
IBM hones its storage for hybrid multi cloud solutions
We look at IBM July 2019 storage announcements Read more »
HPE to acquire Cray – more science for your commerce
Some ideas on thee proposed acquisition of Cray by HPE Read more »
Download the ‘Growth Opportunities in the OEM Landscape’ presentation
Your chance to download the slide set from my presentation to the SIA in April 2019 Read more »
IBM expands the Storwize 5000 family and multicloud storage attachments – April 2019
Analysis of IBM storage division announcements on April 2nd 2019 Read more »
Storage sales $199b in 2018 – exponential capacity growth, increasing software control
A look at the balance between raw and system storage markets Read more »
IBM Q1 2019 storage announcements – security and AI for hybrid multi-cloud customers
A look at the implications of IBM Storage division's Q1 2019 announcements Read more »
HPE’s Composable Cloud – software-defined-everything future systems
A review of HPE's Composable Computing announcement Read more »
DevOps – trends and choices
A look at DevOps challenges in 2019 Read more »
IBM Storage October 2018 – Gen3 V7000, Spectrum Discover launched
A review of IBM Storage division's Q3 2018 announcements Read more »
The rise, rise, rise of cloud computing
An update on the growth and market shares of cloud computing by type, region and in context with other areas of enterprise IT spending Read more »
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