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Comment on Nintendo Leads – 28.5 Million Console Shipments In Year To March 2012 by Aaryn

Aaryn — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:28:35 +0000

Nintendo will always be a part of this market. Kids never get tired of playing Mario!

Comment on IBM Launches PureSystems – An Integrated Compute, Storage, Networking and Middleware Approach by Martin Hingley

Martin Hingley — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:03:38 +0000

Jake
The ‘others’ include (in order of revenues) Bull, Cisco, Acer, Unisys, NEC, SGI, Supermicro, Asus, Lenovo, Huawei and Appro.
Hope that helps. Full stats for all are available – see http://martinhingley.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/server-tracker-2012.pdf.
Best – Martin

Comment on IBM Launches PureSystems – An Integrated Compute, Storage, Networking and Middleware Approach by Jake

Jake — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:53:34 +0000

“Other” is a pretty huge percentage of the total, is there a list of those manufacturers and their individual %? who are the heavy hitters inside the Other category?

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Tue, 01 May 2012 09:47:47 +0000

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Comment on The 2011 Network Hardware Market – Trends In Type, Vendor And Profitability by Rich Kightley

Rich Kightley — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:09:06 +0000

To clarify my comments made above, the dearest Cisco memory I found on Ebay.com USA was a DDR laptop memory sized card of 1Gigabyte for US $6,456.91.

Only $6,500 bucks, good value don’t you think? No one ever got sacked for buying Cisco?

(Details Cisco MEM-XCEF720-1GB= 1GB DDR SDRAM Memory Module with Brass Knobs)
Item condition: New

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cisco-MEM-XCEF720-1GB-1GB-DDR-SDRAM-Memory-Module-/251050109033?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a73c0a869

Comment on The 2011 Network Hardware Market – Trends In Type, Vendor And Profitability by Rich Kightley

Rich Kightley — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:47:33 +0000

Again, masses of information to digest here, but on wireless forecasts, I expect there will be growth in the wireless market, but current technologies are limited by 2 factors, as far as I understand it (I am at the CCNA level).

1) Literally broadcasting anything is essentially insecure. OK, cables can be tapped, but broadcasting is totally insane. The High levels of encryption required exacerbate case 2)

2) Wireless links are shared Simplex, so 10 sharing devices reduce the speed by x10. Multilink technologies are a partial answer.

As an idea, I would suggest that a very short distance wireless would make it unlikely that outsiders could monitor broadcasts. The link would be much faster too. You could just put your Smart device next to an access point?

Cisco’s dominance is a complete mystery to me, as successful products and their management software is genuinely easy to use and understand.

With modern management software, you generally don’t need for senior network staff to pay to go back to school every few years and re-qualify as Cisco Partners and consultants do.

It rather smacks of over-complication, poor software/documentation and obscure documentation being used to hide and confuse users rather than enlighten them.

I guess as long as people are prepared to pay Cisco will still benefit.

Have a look on Ebay.com/ebay.co.uk and you will find Cisco router memory (common old SDRAMS-not even DDR I’s) of 256MB (yes, megabytes) going for £2,500 UKP or more or less.

Amazing how complex Cisco can make networking! Great marketing and top salesman, dominating the world in networking.

Comment on Smart Phone Market Share And Forecast – Apple Increases Its Lead by Martin Hingley

Martin Hingley — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:19:14 +0000

Rich
Thanks for your comments – some very thought-provoking ideas. I can confirm that Apple has a consistent pricing scheme across the globe – no sneaking out to an ‘emerging’ country to get a big discount. Also Apple maintains high prices with good margins – but so would we all if our offerings were as aspirational and popular.
Android has been adopted by many vendors and the entry prices are lower because of the competition and the different roles those phones play in their suppliers’ strategies. Don’t forget they were all (as far as I know) feature phone vendors, so adding Android helps them shift into the vertical appstore world a bit.
As for the rich and the poor… I don’t want to typify countries as exclusively one or the other. Smart phones are popular with the middle classes in any country as long as there are acceptable mobile telecom and Wi Fi infrastructures. Predicting the growth of the middle class with disposable income is behind much of the investment in Africa at the moment.
As for iOS v Android – it seems logical that the greater breadth of suppliers and types of devices the first will be overtaken by the second. I’ve cut the point at which that happens a bit in this forecast.
We’ll take a look at the tablet market soon, where Apple’s growing share in recent quarters is even clearer.
Is Apple’s success a bubble that will burst one day? Certainly, but it would take a brave analyst to say when. I remember well the days of Sun’s success around 1999 when no server vendor could touch it in terms of revenue growth – it’s fall became predictable only in the last couple of years. As for Apple it always had fantastic products, but kicked around the bottom of the PC market before Steve Jobs came back and transformed it.
Best Wishes – Martin

Comment on Smart Phone Market Share And Forecast – Apple Increases Its Lead by Martin Hingley

Martin Hingley — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:56:29 +0000

Thanks Marcel
Half the value, but only 21% of the units. There are still a lot of lesser speced feature phones… and it’s a question of definitions as well.
Best – M