Public Cloud Services Set for Big Growth Nick Kolakowski, February 28, 2017 2 min read Just in case you’ve thought that spending on public-cloud offerings will level off at some point soon, a new report...
Is Tech Spending Slowing Down? Nick Kolakowski, February 18, 2016 2 min read Worldwide tech spending could fall in 2016, according to a new estimate from research firm IDC. “Economic weakness...
IDC: IT No Longer Responsible for Most Tech Spending Kevin Fogarty, October 4, 2013 5 min read IT accounts for less than half of corporate spending on technology. IDC has put paid to the idea that technology is...
Mainframes, Hyperscale Blades Hint at Server Market Shift Kevin Fogarty, August 29, 2013 6 min read Mainframes and hyper-dense server sales rise as datacenters migrate beyond x86 into higher levels of abstraction It...
Apple iPhone’s Share of the Smartphone Market Declines Nick Kolakowski, August 9, 2013 3 min read Apple's iPhone. Apple’s share of the smartphone market is declining, according to new data from IDC. But...
SSDs: New King of the Data Center? Kevin Fogarty, June 12, 2013 4 min read SSDs are making inroads into data centers. Flash storage is more common on mobile devices than data-center...
Ethernet Buyers Favor Big Switches, Avoid Routers Kevin Fogarty, June 5, 2013 3 min read There is a growing disparity in the market for Ethernet routers and switches. Sales of Layer2/3 Ethernet...
How Small Tablets Could Complicate Big Data Nick Kolakowski, May 28, 2013 3 min read Tablets are outpacing the “traditional” PC market by a wide margin, according to new estimates from IDC. In...
HPC Sales Hit New Record in 2012 Mark Hachman, March 25, 2013 3 min read Research institutions, government agencies and other customers with deep pockets made 2012 a record year for...
Is there a buck in Apache Hadoop? Nick Kolakowski, March 18, 2013 3 min read A bubble's always pretty until it pops. Is there a buck (or two) in Apache Hadoop, the open-source framework for...