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Cloud hardware spend edges ahead of traditional setups for the first time

Q3 '18 it hit 50.9% of of total IT turnover, according to analyst

SaaS11 Jan 2019 | 2

Jingle bells, disk drives sell not so well from today. Oh what fun it is to ride on a one-horse open array...

In brief Third of market to evaporate by 2021. Only nearline, spycam drives to swell

Storage17 Dec 2018 | 29

Cloud giants, enterprise refreshes keep storage market poppin': Global sales up 20% in Q3

IBM and Hitachi fail to surf crest of spending wave as rivals seize the day

Storage14 Dec 2018 | 7

Doubles all round for the server-makers: Market inhales $23.36bn for the quarter

Dell EMC, HPE and ODMs frolic as cloud rains cash

Systems12 Dec 2018 | 2

For wearable analysts, the glass is always half full

IDC looks at stagnant US market ... and sees only joy

Personal Tech05 Dec 2018 | 3

The good news: PC sales went up a little worldwide, say Gartner crystal-ball-gazers

The bad news: PC sales went down a little, says IDC

Channel11 Oct 2018 | 4

Shrinking shipments, hidden money: IDC studies the martial art of EMEA server market

Sucks up $4bn in Q2 alone

Systems02 Oct 2018 |

Big fish still dominate as hyper-converged systems come into the mainstream

Just worms for Oracle as integrated platform market tanks in Q2

Storage27 Sep 2018 |

You've been served: Market rakes in $22bn, Dell does rather well – IDC

And ODM stands for Original Dollar Makers in latest server digits

Systems07 Sep 2018 | 9

Analysts gawp at network function virtualization through rose-tinted specs

$4,500 report tells us its gonna be huge by, er, 2022. No, really

Virtualization29 Aug 2018 | 1

Australia defies trend for network sales slide, shovels cash at Cisco

Good old-fashioned hardware-defined networking growing like topsy Down Under

Networks09 Jul 2018 | 3

WOS going on? DDN ejected from IDC object storage marketscape

Cue raised eyebrows – Cohesity and SUSE enter

Storage28 Jun 2018 | 1

Virtual reality meets commercial reality as headset sales plunge

But growth is imminent as businesses buy and build VRs, and consumer kit improves

Science20 Jun 2018 | 21

Flash industry weather forecast anticipates a stormy few years ahead

Revenue will fall, but gigabytes shipped will rise as NAND soars

Storage19 Jun 2018 |

Would you rather health data or finance data in the cloud?

Hint: health outspends finance outfits two to one, but all vertical IT is heading cloudy. Fast

SaaS15 Jun 2018 | 9

Worst. Birthday. Ever. IPv6's party falls flat

Roundup In this weeks networking news, switches surged, Riverbed monitored and the MEF standardised

Networks10 Jun 2018 | 62

Hyperscale sippers go crazy at the storage bar, judging from IDC digits

Cloud giants prefer drinking direct from servers than having tequila SAN-rise cocktails

Storage07 Jun 2018 |

It's good to be the king: Dell gives HPE hell at top of server charts

Watch out for those white-box-flingers, though, Mike

Systems01 Jun 2018 | 5

PCs were more and less expensive in Q1 as shipments stalled

HP and Lenovo are kings of the ever-shrinking hills, but Dell’s made a move

Personal Tech12 Apr 2018 | 15

B-Ark passengers to control most IT spend from 2019 onwards

Line of business people will do the buying. IT departments still get to do the rest

On-Prem12 Apr 2018 | 35

Supermicro praying for Nasdaq time

Delayed reports getting delayed some more as loan finance extension sought

Systems14 Mar 2018 | 1

Ethernet sales growing, but routing's been routed by software

As hardware goes soft, hardware revenues follow

Networks08 Mar 2018 | 2

The hounds of storage track converged and hyperconverged beasts

Comment Sniff... sniff. They can't be far. These animals just ate 1.96 EB!

Storage24 Dec 2017 | 27

Bit price drop + compute-storage closeness = enterprise flash use boom

Analysis NVMe speed meets IoT edge need – analyst

Storage22 Dec 2017 | 4

Big Mike is going to make HPE's life a living Dell: Server sales surge

Box sales overall up 20% in Q3. PS: Was Lenovo's IBM x86 server buy a mistake?

Systems02 Dec 2017 | 20

Off-brand tablets look done, but big players are growing

And heeeere comes Amazon with its crazy low prices

Personal Tech06 Nov 2017 | 36

Gartner says back-to-school PC sales failed. IDC says they worked

Whatever's going on, overall sales are down leaving HP Inc and Lenovo lords of a shrinking land

Personal Tech12 Oct 2017 | 34

'Hyper' kids ate all the sales growth again, say converged systems beancounters

Good Q2 news for Cisco, NetApp and a few others. Yep, just them

Storage29 Sep 2017 |

Australians still buy 100,000 feature phones a quarter

Android takes market share crown, but ~5% of buyers don't care for smartphones

Personal Tech28 Aug 2017 | 18

PC sales to fall and fall and fall and fall and fall for the next five years

Surfaces, iPad Pro and their ilk will do okay, bad news for all other form factors

Personal Tech25 Aug 2017 | 69

PC sales still slumping, but more slowly than feared

~650,000 machines still ship every day, but that's the lowest total since 2007

On-Prem13 Jul 2017 | 40

Farewell, slumping 40Gbps Ethernet, we hardly knew ye

IDC's network tracker finds 100 Gbps and software-defined kit surging, at Cisco's expense

Networks13 Jun 2017 | 23

Windows 10 love to see PC market grow again. Future iPhone to be clear. Elvis to re-appear

Analyst firm IDC just made one of these three improbable predictions for the year 2019

Personal Tech26 May 2017 | 68

SSD price premium over disk faaaalling

Updated IDC SSD forecast sees 44 per cent capacity CAGR 2016-2021

Storage22 May 2017 | 48

It's been two and a half years of decline – tablets aren't coming back

Fondleslab sales plummet goes from 'bad' to 'IBM'

Personal Tech05 May 2017 | 74

PC sales are up across Europe. You read that right. PC sales are up

Laptops lead EMEA sales revival, but Brexit-blown Blighty misses out

Personal Tech24 Apr 2017 | 41

Seagate sponsors re-fashioned IDC digital data-flood blather

Saturday night’s takeout: robot made pizza delivered by drone

Storage05 Apr 2017 | 1

Converged systems market is so hot it just went backwards

FY 2016 was okay, but Q4 was ugly, which may explain the SimpliVity fire sale and Nutanix's revenue warning

On-Prem27 Mar 2017 | 6

White-box slingers, Chinese server makers now neck-and-neck with US tech giants

Analysis Jade kingdom has massive home advantage

Systems14 Mar 2017 | 13

Revamped IDC Storage Tracker anoints Dell as external storage top dog

More market share than HPE, IBM and NetApp combined

Storage03 Mar 2017 | 1

Wearables aren't dead but apps on wearables might be

The only data you want on your wrist describes your pulse

Personal Tech03 Mar 2017 | 17

TWO BILLION PCs to sell in next five years

Which sounds great! Shame annual sales will be less in 2021 than they were in 2016

Personal Tech28 Feb 2017 | 45

World to spend US$2.4 TRILLION on tech in 2017

Software to overtake hardware by 2020, say abacus-shufflers at IDC

On-Prem10 Feb 2017 | 7

Chinese investors gobble up owner of PCWorld, Macworld etc

IDG into the hands of the Middle Kingdom – except its HPC bit

HPC20 Jan 2017 | 21

Cloud hardware spend hits US$8.4bn/quarter, as traditional kit sinks

2017 forecast to see cloud kit clock $11bn every 90 days

SaaS16 Jan 2017 |

Brexit contributes to backup appliance sales fall

Pockets of growth in Europe fail to prevent overall decline

On-Prem12 Jan 2017 | 3

Back up a minute. So you're saying they're buying fewer appliances?

Data backup Domain shrinks as market looks to the sw-defined and public cloud

Storage20 Dec 2016 | 7

IBM makes clever, safe acquisition, swallows object storage market

IDC marketscapers scope out rankings

Storage14 Dec 2016 | 5

Shrinkage!? But it's sooo big! More data won't leave storage biz proud

Cold-water time for fancy pants players

Storage09 Dec 2016 | 16

IDC shock prediction: Someone might build Skynet in next few years

Tech's Mystic Megs also say robotics market will expand. No shit, Sherlock

AI + ML07 Dec 2016 | 5

Apple Watch sales go over a cliff: Down 2.8 meellion per quarter in a year

If a wearable does much more than measure your pulse, it hardly has a pulse

Personal Tech06 Dec 2016 | 72

PC sales outlook improves: Now terrifying instead of catastrophic

Keep the defibrillator handy

Personal Tech01 Dec 2016 | 15

Curb your enthusiasm, 'India's smartphones are changing the world' fans

First 30-million smartmobe quarter ever just happened, but feature phones still sell more

On-Prem17 Nov 2016 | 3

Cheap, lousy tablets are killing the whole market says IDC

Amazon and Huawei sales up, everyone else is drooping

Personal Tech01 Nov 2016 | 53

Finally, that tech fad's over: Smartwatch sales tank more than 50%

Apple still rules the roost – but it's not a popular perch

Personal Tech24 Oct 2016 | 96

HPE tops in tape. Yes, tape is still a thing

Nothing too flashy, but it still makes bucks on ribbons of rust

Channel17 Oct 2016 | 8