Is Google's Android operating system beating up Apple's iOS? Not according to ITCandor's brand new analysis of the worldwide smart phone business. 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 »
Fujitsu’s New CX1000 Primegy Server – Density Design For Cloud Computing With New Cooling
Fujitsu have designed a new modular server made from nodes and cooled by funnels, allowing data centres to do away with 'hot aisles' Read ITCandor's take on its announcement. Read more »
The World Server Market – A Forecast To Recovery
The server market has undergone a dramatic fall over the last year. In this analyst report Martin give a forecast for the recovery. Read more »
EMC Grows Quarterly Revenues 2% To $4.2 Billion – Focuses On Acquisitions And Cloud
EMC has posted positive revenue growth for the first time in a year. Martin describes how it has engaged in acquisition activity since buying Data Domain and how it is developing its approach to Cloud Computing. Read more »
‘Storage OnLine’ Offers Practical Disaster Recovery Services With A Just A Gist Of Cloud
Storage OnLine is a disaster recovery service supplier and long-term Symantec partner. In an interview with its CEO Lewis McMahon, Martin investigates the company's business and developing approach to Cloud Computing. Read more »
ITCandor 2010 Expectations – Cloud, Gaming And Convergence Drives The Recovery
Producing expectations for 2010 is a good way to let you know what we'll be studying. In this report Martin, helped by other 'Henry Fellows' gives 10 insights into what to look forward to. Read more »
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank Outsources IT Infrastructure To Fujitsu Services
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has decided to outsource its IT infrastructure to Fujitsu. Martin assesses what this new contract means in terms of the lack of outsourcing in Germany generally and the current recession. Read more »
IBM System X – An Integrated x86 Approach From The Fullest Range Vendor
IBM invited a number of analysts over to Avenet's office to discuss System x. Martin's written it up, adding data from his own research. Read more »
AMD’s New ‘Vision’ Marketing Addresses Consumer Usage, Not Raw Technology
AMD announced its Vision strategy for consumer laptops on September 10th. Martin analyses its chances of success in changing the game in marketing for use as opposed to raw technology. Read more »
How To Handle Wildly Fluctuating Exchange Rates In Regional Market Assessments
Martin advises market planners on how to handle exchange rates and curency when covering mulitple regions and warns against using reports which don't address the issues. Read more »
World Server Forecast – Revenue Will Decline 26% In 2009 With No Growth Til H2 2010
Martin reviews and forecasts the Server market, based on vendor revenue analysis. He predicts hard times and offers some ideas on how to manage through Read more »
BT Global Services Approach To Sustainability – A British Mix Of CSR And Business
Having visited BT's sustainability experts, Martin takes a look at BT - placing Global Services in context with other European telecoms players. Read more »
How Will Microsoft Adjust Its Strategy To Survive The ITC Downturn?
Microsoft is planning its new strategy in the last month of its financial year. In this piece Martin forecasts what will be in it it and give some advice on how it can survivie the ITC downturn Read more »
Welcome to my Blog!
Blogging about ITC eventually… I’m going to cover subjects such as Cloud Computing, Corporate and Social Responsibility, Market Forecasts, Digital Content, Convergence, etc. There’s so much happening in the industry today – and not all bad. Looking forward to discussing themes, trends, opportunities with anyone who’s interested. Everyone suggested WordPress as a […] Read more »