Some sizing and ideas about the networking market and the convergence beyween telecoms and IT markets Read more »
Networking – converged, converging or eternally independent?
Storage systems – sales steady, but uncoupled from raw storage growth
A look at the size, growth and major suppliers of storage systems in 2022. Read more »
Dell heads the slowly evolving server market in 2022
A round-up of the worldwide server market in 2022 and its opportunities in 2023 and beyond Read more »
Will the post-pandemic peripherals market recover?
A look at the market, regional and product landscape of the peripherals markey in 2022, with some ideas on where it's going Read more »
Dire times ahead for the PC market
ITCandor's look-back at the PC market in 2022 with some dire warnings about 2023 Read more »
My 360° insight into the $7.3 trillion post-pandemic ITC market
A multi-dimensional look at the worldwide IT and communications market Read more »
The PC market booms, despite supply chain and government challenges
a summary of the worldwide and regional PC market in 2021 Read more »
The software market booms in 2021 – $1.4b revenue, 11% growth, 24% profitability
A summary of the market trends and shares of the worldwide software market from 2013 to 2021 Read more »
The $1.2 trillion Enterprise IT market 2021 – Amazon market leader of a varied and changing landscape
A look at the total market for enterprise IT encompassing hardware, infrastructure software, outsourcing, managed service and cloud computing with market trnds and shares Read more »
The $207b network market – still haunted by issues of trust
A long term view of the enterprise and servic provider network markets with market data and analysis Read more »
Storage systems 2021 – stable spending in a sea of change
The worldwide storage systems hardware market grew by just 2% in 2021 to reach $34.8 billion, which proved yet again that the success of these products has become increasingly unconnected with that of raw storage, which grew by 19% growth in the year. My Figure above shows total spending by […] Read more »
Server market grows 4% to $91 billion in 2021 – could have been more
A review of the server market in 2022 and look ahead to 2023 Read more »
‘as a service’ offerings and hybrid multi-cloud architectures become the norm in enterprise computing
Each generation of enterprise computing (centralized, client-server, Internet, managed services, cloud) has created disruption and inefficiencies in integration of the new with the old. Leading suppliers such as Cisco, IBM, Oracle, HPE, Huawei, Atos, Fujitsu and Hitachi will attempt to hang on to their customers’ budgets by promoting ‘as a […] Read more »
Networks – a tale of two cities and failing trust
A look at spending, changes and supplier market shares in enterprise and service provider networks Read more »
Storage systems hardware and software, raw storage trends and market shares
My latest shares, trends and analysis of the global storage market Read more »
The worldwide server market – hedged in by cloud, but still vital
The server market is vital for enterprise and SMEs, supporting vital workloads, but growth appears to have stalled. No doubt spending would be much higher if the self-built systems of the largest cloud computing weren’t continuing to eat up commercial workloads. Within the market the leading vendors – Dell EMC […] Read more »
PC sales rebound due to lockdown and home working
Why is the PC market resurging? Where is it going? Read more »
The printer market – where do we go from here?
The printer market entered yet another phase of decline as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 customers spent $33 billion (down 10%) on 143 million printers (down 11%), while the total installed base dropped 4% to 577 million. Read more »
HP – is it better off disaggregated?
What can we learn from HP's disaggregation? Read more »
How the pandemic is changing the PC market
Some notes on the important role of PCs during the pandemic with market shares and forecasts Read more »