7. Enterprise computing shifts off premise – AWS replaces Cisco as top supplier

My seventh 2018 prediction is about the evolving balance between traditional hardware, infrastructure software, outsourcing, managed services and cloud purchases. Read more »

The 2025 enterprise computing forecast – cloud wins hands-down

My enterprise computing forecast including a masive victory for cloud computing. Read more »

ITC markets down 2% in Q2 2017 – growth worst in the UK (again), best in India

A précis of ITCandor's quarterly tracking of the ITC market in Q2 2017 and the year to the end of June. 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 »

Storage 2017 – growth at last!

A complete review of the storage systems, disc, NAND and DRAM markets. Read more »

IBM, Everledger and the market disruption of Blockchain

Exchanging assets for money can be a complicated – and sometimes expensive – process: for instance trading stock can happen in a millisecond, but settlement can take days to complete. Imagine a world in which such transactions can be handled in the digital realm in a system which creates an […] Read more »