MOBILE DEVICES SURGE Q1 AS CHINA LEADS THE WAY
By Martin Hingley I’ve been busy adjusting my mobile device model to accommodate the growth of new form factors – ‘Smart Wearables’ and ‘IoT Devices’. although they’re not yet shipping in multi...
View ArticleITC SPENDING DOWN 5.5% IN Q2 2015
By Martin Hingley Q2 2015 WE’RE IN ANOTHER DOWNTURN After assessing the revenues of 150 separate ITC vendors and am sorry to report that their results continued to worsen. In fact the total market...
View ArticleCLOUD SERVICES, MORE RAPID GROWTH TO Q2 2015 – WILL THE MOMENTUM CONTINUE?...
We sized the enterprise IT hardware market at $143b in a recent research paper. Now it’s time to look at cloud services – Infrastructure and Platform ‘as a Services’ are alternatives to building and...
View ArticleTHE CURRENCY CLOUD: DISCREPANCIES MASK THE SIZE OF REGIONAL MARKETS
Following my sizing and forecast for cloud services published yesterday, I wanted to expand on the regional growth stats. The rapidly falling value of almost all local currencies against the $US is...
View ArticleTHE ITC MARKET FALLS 3.2% TO $1.6T IN Q3 2015
It’s not a great year for the IT and Communications market. In Q3 2015 et again we saw a fall in revenues – by 3.2% in the quarter to $1.6 trillion and in the year to the end of September of 4.4% to...
View ArticleQ3 2015 ENTERPRISE NETWORKS UP 3.7%
The network market is the largest sector of the IT world, but has been performing sluggishly. It is split roughly 66:33 between service provider and enterprise offerings. The Q3 2015 enterprise network...
View Article2016 IT and Comms predictions by Martin Hingley
2016 IT and Comms predictions It’s that time of the year again.. time to look at the new year and make a few predictions. My forecasts cover those areas and themes that look most likely to prosper. As...
View ArticleApple running out of new customers
Since 2003 Apple has shipped 1.8B devices – the equivalent of one for 30% of the world’s population (see the Figure for shipments by quarter). On average we gave it $39 each if you divide its $235b...
View ArticleMobile devices 2015 Results – 3% revenue growth, 6% unit decline
Mobile devices 2015 Results 3% revenue growth, 6% unit decline It took many vendors by surprise when users began to prefer their mobile phones to PCs for accessing and interacting with the Internet....
View ArticleHardcopy Peripheral 2015 Results inc Services & consumables
Do customers need traditional printers any more? Yes – but not in the same quantity as in previous years. In 2015 total spending declined by 14.5% to reach $34.5B. Unit shipments declined by 11.5% to...
View ArticlePC Market 2015 Results – Revenue 3.8% Down
It’s been a long time since PCs were the driving force of our industry. Nevertheless they remain second only to smart phones in terms of revenues and a major ecosystem for application developers and...
View Article2015 EMEA Cloud Market Results, Growth to €29.9 Billion
The 2015 EMEA Cloud Market total grew by 37.0% in Euros (15.0% in $US) to reach €29.9B ($33.3B). The best performing subcategory was IaaS, which grew by 43.8% – followed by PaaS (41.4%): together these...
View ArticleBrexit – the consequences for ITC markets
The UK accounted for 16% of total IT and communications spending in EMEA in 2015 – the second largest market after Germany. It is a potent mature market with strong ties to the US, the EU and EMEA,...
View ArticleCLOUD SERVICES, MORE RAPID GROWTH TO Q2 2015 – WILL THE MOMENTUM CONTINUE?...
We sized the enterprise IT hardware market at $143b in a recent research paper. Now it’s time to look at cloud services – Infrastructure and Platform ‘as a Services’ are alternatives to building and...
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