The Server Biz Stalls In The First Quarter
June 3, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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The combined effects of server virtualization, cloud computing, a grumpy global economy, transitions in major server processors, and a shift in form factors for certain kinds of workloads have all combined to make first quarter server sales a little less than they might otherwise be. But, it must be remembered, companies still consumed millions of machines and spent billions of dollars on shiny new iron in the three months ending in March. By the counting and estimating done by the server geeks at Gartner, the world’s companies consumed some 2.33 million machines of all makes, models, shapes, and sizes |
