IBM And Inspur Power Systems Buck The Server Decline Trends
September 9, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan
For the first time in 11 quarters – in other words, since the final quarter of 2016 – the server market contracted. And not just because the hyperscalers and cloud builders were cutting back on spending as they consumed the vast amount of compute capacity that they bought in 2018. Enterprises pulled back on spending, too, and every geographic region and every category of server had declines as well, many of these due to their own independent cycles and some due to macroeconomic effects.
As we reported back in July, the Power Systems business grew 3 percent at constant …
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