Computacenter, one of Europe's largest resellers, struggling with data centre kit, up to 6-month lead times

The mood music in tech land isn't so much about workspace projects - that's so 2020 - it's more about biz customers again investing in data centre hardware, when they can get hold of it. At least that's the view of one of Europe's largest resellers: Computacenter, which turns 40 next month, and today outlined results for the …

[Anonymous Coward]

where are my chips?

the cry of a thousand project managers!!

Anon as some people believe they are at the top of the list as our call is important to CC.

[maddoxx]

Re: where are my chips?

I think in reality it is about crisps, isn't?

[Adelio]

Keeping Things Close

I hope that the supply issues will encourage companies to try and source parts a little closer to home. With so much of what we use being shipped for many thousands of miles, this is always going to be problems if there is a blockage like Covid or the Sueze Canal issue.

If your supplier is only a few hundred miles away it is much easier to get items that if they are on the other side of the wolrd and delivery should also be a lot quicker.

[GruntyMcPugh]

Re: Keeping Things Close

Riiight, so we're gonna go shop at Kev's Komputers when we do our datacentre refresh?

[Petalium]

Maybe time to look at optimising the existing resources instead of installing more hardware?

Efficient code, store less data and use better communication protocols?

Added benefit: less energy used, reduced shipping and reduced use of raw materials

[tip pc]

"Added benefit: less energy used, reduced shipping and reduced use of raw materials"

Where is the tax incentive in that?

[Will Godfrey]

But... but..

Pretty... Shiny... CEO wants!