Why HPE buying SGI is important Read more »
HPE buys SGI – increases high performance, technical and analytics expertise
Cloud computing – whose resources and where?
Another attempt to define cloud computing and its adoption by medium and large organisations Read more »
The booming EU – and UK! – data center market
ITCandor launches it's new 'data center impressions' service for EU business planners Read more »
HPE offloads Enterprise Services to CSC – jettisons traditional outsourcing
Some stats on the CSC acquisition of HPE's HP Services business. Read more »
Cloud Computing in EMEA reaches €29.9B in 2015
Some stats on cloud computing in EMEA with market shares and forecasts to 2020 Read more »
Cloud services grow 20% in 2015 to reach $107B
A look at cloud services market shares and forecasts Read more »
2016 predictions 1 – The world ITC market declines by 1.2% to $5.8 trillion
In 2015 the market declined by 5.1%, so its unlikely to see a recovery in the year. My forecast is for a 1.2% decline, with the market reaching $5.8T. Performance by category will vary. In particular: Software will grow 4.2% to $916B: although it lags in revenues, it will continue […] Read more »
2016 prediction 7 – Cloud Computing continues to surge – SaaS is the star
Cloud computing will grow by 13% to reach $354B. The strongest growth will be in SaaS (26.3%), which we count as part of the software market. IT services engage to build and manage private, public and hybrid clouds will grow by 16.3%, PaaS by 7.7% and IaaS by 8.1%. The […] Read more »
The ITC market falls 3.2% to $1.6T in Q3 2015
A first look at market growth in Q3 2015 Read more »
Business sector and consumer IT spending trends
More on the IT market sending by consumer and business by industry sector Read more »
Cloud services suffer massive regional currency discrepancies
Big differences between local and $US revenue growth in Asia Pacific and EMEA cloud services Read more »
Cloud services – SaaS, IaaS and PaaS forecast
Latest forecast and market share for IaaS/PaaS, SaaS and total cloud services Read more »
ITC spending -5.5% in Q2 2015 – we’re in another downturn
Q2 results show we're already in another market downturn Read more »
Atos acquires Xerox’s ITO business – better times ahead for outsourcing
Economies of scale will help improve the profitability of outsourcing over the next few years Read more »
Xavier Poisson on HP Helion, Cloud 28+ and Europe
My analysis of HP Helion and the Cloud 28+ community in Europe Read more »
The Datacenter Security Continuum
Datacenter security from a logical, rather than physical point of view - separated, but related, to network and endpoint security Read more »
HP putting the Ink in Inc.
Like eBay and Symantec HP is planning to split itself into 2 businesses - HP Inc. and HP Enterprise Read more »
Symantec’s Security and Information Management – Veritas – bifurcation
Splitting in 2 should help Symantec become more focussed and agile Read more »
Atos buys Bull for €620 million
We take a look at the acquisition of Bull by Atos - big news for European Cloud computing Read more »
Hitachi Data Systems – Beyond Unified, Virtualised And Flash
HDS makes less noise than many systems vendors, but has some important server, storage and services offerings Read more »