A look of the growing sales of raw storage devices in 2025 Read more »
Raw storage sales grow 22% to $241b in the year to September 2025
Q3 2025 – The ITC boom continues – spending up 8%!
A look at the tremendous growth in the world ITC market in Q3 2025 Read more »
$2 Trillion spent on ICT in Q225 – a new quarterly record
My review of the spending and profit growth of the ITC industry in Q2 2025 by offering, supplier and country Read more »
Q1 2025 – The ITC market continues to boom despite trade tarrifs
A look at Q1 2025 ITC market growth by offering, supplier and country Read more »
The ITC market grows 6% in Q424 to $1.98 trillion
ITCandor's comprehensive analysis of spending growth in the ITC industry in Q4 2024 for vendors, countries and offerings. Read more »
The world ITC market grows 5% to reach $1.9 trillion in Q3 2024
As I predicted last quarter the Information Technology and Communications market continues to grow. In total revenues reached $1.9 trillion (the highest of any quarter in history) in the quarter and $7.4 trillion in the year to the end of September – up 5% and 3% respectively. Net profit, however […] Read more »
ITC spending reaches $1.865 trillion in Q2 2024 – the highest ever total
It may seem a long time ago, but it takes time to assess market movements. In this post I’ll pass on our findings about the size and growth of the ITC market in the second quarter (April to June) 2024. Read more »
The raw storage market returns to growth… will it be ‘exponential’?
My forecast for hard disk drive, NAND and DRAM markets following two ywars of steep decline Read more »
Storage capacity shipments fall – the end of exponential growth?
Poor performance in the sales of raw data storage devices is contributing to the softness of the current ITC market; does this represent a temporary or permanent change in the storage market? Read more »
Softness in client device and raw storage sales creates challenges for IT spending in 2023
A look at the downturn in the ITC market in Q1 2023 Read more »
Cloud computing grows up – $413 billion and counting…
Cloud computing has been one of the fastest growing and exciting IT markets over the past decade. Typically bought by enterprises wanting to avoid the complexity of setting up, deploying and managing applications them in their own data centers, cloud services come in three flavours – software, platform and infrastructure […] Read more »
Networking – converged, converging or eternally independent?
Some sizing and ideas about the networking market and the convergence beyween telecoms and IT markets Read more »
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 »
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 »
Mobile devices – the battle between East and West for a $545 billion market
The mobile device market is massive – in 2021 there were 1.7 billion shipments worth $545 billion and an installed base of 3.7 billion. Growth in the year was 25% in spending and 8% in shipments, although the installed base didn’t grow. The number of non-Internet enabled basic phones and […] 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 »
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 »
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 »