Microsoft and HP have spent 3 years and $250 million in major collaborative activities. Today they announce 'appliance' strategy and offerings. Read ITCandor's analysis of what it means. Read more »
HP Acquires 3Par For $2.35 Billion – Expensive, But Positive, News
HP needs 3Par to improve growth rates in its storage systems business. In this article ITCandor looks at the growth rates of leading suppliers and discusses current trends. Read more »
Worldwide Smart Phones – Apple Is Clear Leader Of The $57 Billion, 166 Million Handset Market
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 »
Racemi’s Image-Based Provisioning Ripe For Cloud Computing
The growth of virtualisation and Cloud Computing means that server images need to be constantly lifted and moved about a data centre, to the Cloud and back. Racemi is a specialist software expert in the area of Image-Based Provisioning. Read this article based on an interview with CEO Lawrence Guillory to learn more. 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 »
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 »
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 »
The Xen Cloud Platform Initiative Aims For Open Source Links Between Private And Public Cloud Computing
Xen.org is developing Open Source means of connecting private and public Cloud Computing. In this analyst report Martin talks about the challenges data centre managers have in addressing these developments, while pointing out the importance of virtualisation and this developing ecosystem. Read more »
HP’s Acquisitions Help With An ‘Easier Compare’ For Q3 FY10 Results
HP announced its Q3 FY10 results this week. In this short article Martin looks at what it says about HP's business, the state of the downturn and prospects for a turnaround in coming quarters. 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 »
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 »
Cloud Computing – A Growth Business In The Downturn
In this first of a series of Themes, Martin describes and defines Cloud Computing from the point of view of user and supplier participants. He calls for reactions in order to provide future profiles. His conclusion is that Cloud Computing is good in a downturn. For a powerpoint presentation of this blog see http://tinyurl.com/ryk3n2. Read more »