Information Technology and Communications research
Before publishing my predictions for 2022, it’s time to appraise those made for this year – which was the second year badly affected by the pandemic. As always, I’ve marked each between 1 and 10 based on their accuracy. No. My top 10 predictions Score Comment 1 The world market […] Read more »
A look at spending, changes and supplier market shares in enterprise and service provider networks Read more »
A look at the mobile device market and its carbon consequences Read more »
My latest shares, trends and analysis of the global storage market Read more »
IBM’s storage group’s strategy seeks to support customers in their use of multiple data centers, whether on premises or in public clouds – and whether using IBM products or others. It wants to make it easier and more efficient for them; but to do so it has mastered a number […] Read more »
A look at IBM's Power10 and Telum chip announcements Read more »
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 »
A look at the status of the cloud services market complete with market shares and forecasts Read more »
Why is the PC market resurging? Where is it going? Read more »
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 »
My look at IBM Storage announcements on July 20th 2021 Read more »
A look at the role of OpenShift as an anchor for enterprise IT infrastructure Read more »
A look at the causes of the shortages of microprocessors Read more »
A look at IBM's strategy - undergoing big changes this year Read more »
A look at the announcement of IBM LinuxONE III Express models announced this week Read more »
My proposed universal server classification schema Read more »
A look at the annual changes and future challenges of the mobile device and smart phone market Read more »
A quick look at Cisco's historical success and future challenges Read more »
Apple is the largest IT company in the world. It’s revenues were $294 billion in 2020 – the equivalent of everyone alive on the planet spending $26.52 on its offerings. It’s business grew substantially on the introduction of the iPhone, expanded as we recovered from the Credit Crunch and has […] Read more »
What can we learn from HP's disaggregation? Read more »