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 »
Server market takes a pause in 2019 – still dominated by Windows and x86
A look at the server market in the first half of 2019 from ITCandor's research 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 »
The gaming market waits for new Sony and Microsoft consoles
A look at the gaming console market worldwide at the end of June 2019 Read more »
Mobile device market down 8% to $392b – what’s the next big thing?
We look at the state of play in the mobile device market in Q2 2019 Read more »
Cloud services $246 billion and still growing at 25%
I look at the latest market developments for cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS and PaaS) Read more »
IBM Launches the z15 and LinuxONE III
I look at the z15 at launch Read more »
IBM hones its storage for hybrid multi cloud solutions
We look at IBM July 2019 storage announcements Read more »
Europe ITC – €1.6T revenue, €160B net profit, 6m workers
More stats on ITC in Europe Read more »
Lenovo battles HP for leadership of the $163b PC market
A look at PC market shares in shipment units, revenue and installed base in the Americas, Asia Pacific and EMEA 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 »
Servers up 9% to $85b in 2018 despite self-built cloud system competition
A look at the server market in 2018 and its growing competition with cloud services 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 »
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 »
Cyber security goes multi-tenant and cross-border
Cyber security and new vendors are in my 2nd prediction Read more »
IBM and Redhat discuss the acquisition
More on the IBM acquisition of RedHat Read more »
IBM to buy RedHat for $33.4 billion to enhance its cloud, infrastructure software and Open Source businesses
A look at the proposed acquisition of RedHat by IBM Read more »
Gaming market falls 24% in Q2 2018 as we wait for the next big thing
An update on the world gaming console and software market in Q2 2018 Read more »