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Server market slumps as everyone stops buying
Abacus-shuffler IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for the year's third quarter makes for ugly reading: the firm says just about all categories of server sales have stalled. Revenue was down 7.0 per cent, year over year, and shipments decreased 4.6 per cent. It's not all bad, there's still 2.38m machines and US$12.5 …
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Friday 2nd December 2016 14:37 GMT Anonymous Coward
Oh really? How strange, that more and more companies are discovering that on prem is actually cheaper than the cloud and starting to move back.
If you take a look at IT the last 40-50 years or so you'll notice a trend. Equipment, skills and focus has shifted back and forth between centralization and decentralization. What you re witnessing is the start of the pendulum starting to swing the other way.
Because centralization drives innovation, that is then used to lower the price of decentralization. So don't worry, there will be space enough for both off and on prem in the future. =)
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Monday 5th December 2016 06:11 GMT techietubby
Not so black and white
I think that the cloud has shown to be the perfect platform for small scale and dev and test deployments that do not need to run 24*7 or to have large hardware resources. Public cloud is not the solution for long running "big" systems such as a bank payments system because these systems are long-living and need lots of horse-power.
The other big negative of the public cloud is that a company loses a huge amount of control of their data and resources, and compliance can become a nightmare.
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Thursday 8th December 2016 23:09 GMT JosiahB
Re: Not so black and white
Couldn't agree more, we've discounted public on the basis of cost and compliance. Compliance is actually the bigger of the stumbling blocks, we're dealing with a significant lump of customer data and our clients want to be sure we're meeting our compliance standards. Proving that beyond doubt in the public cloud isn't really possible at the moment.
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Monday 5th December 2016 10:11 GMT Korev
Virtualisation?
As CPU core count, RAM, SDD etc. get rapidly bigger/cheaper compared to the demands put on them by $OS etc. you can fit more and more VMs onto a single server. Maybe this is another reason why people are buying fewer servers. At my work now, most of the physical servers are HPC nodes.
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