Why the On-Premises IT Decline is Accelerating

“The market for data center hardware is soft, and not just because of COVID-19. Like so many other trends, the pandemic didn’t yield anything new, but it did significantly accelerate almost every trend. Spending on teleconferencing exploded, while data center spending slowed considerably.”

via Forrester

Why APAC will Drive the Global IT Server Market

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) server market will grow at a CAGR of 6.1% between 2018 and 2023, and account for nearly one-third of the global market. APAC is set to be the largest region with $33.8bn server revenue, out of the $101.6bn total market.

via GlobalData

Why AI Applications Need Purpose-Built Servers

This is why compute and storage server platforms matter: “the AI revolution that we are witnessing could not have happened without the evolution of the computing hardware and of the computing ecosystem.”

via World Economic Forum

Hyperscale Cloud Drives Server Market Revenue

While demand from cloud service providers propped up overall market performance, many other areas of the server market are still stagnant. Worldwide server shipments increased 1.9% year over year to 2.45 million units in 2Q17.

Source: IDC

Cloud Services Continue to Drive IT Server Market Shift

The shift to public cloud computing continues to impact on-premises IT data centers. Vendor revenue in the worldwide server market declined 4.6 percent year-over-year to $11.8 billion in the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17), according to the latest market study by IDC.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Global Servers Market will Reach $71 billion by 2021

The increasing use of Big Data analytics across industries is spurring the need for servers with high processing capabilities. The increasing number of IoT applications also generates massive data, network traffic, and demand for real-time analytics, resulting in the production of new server designs and methods of deploying compute capability.

Source: Technavio

Global Demand for Computing Servers Spiral Downward

Vendor revenue in the overall worldwide computing server market declined 4.6 percent year-over-year to $14.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2016 (4Q16), according to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC).

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Why Superior IT Vendors Have Forward-Thinking Leaders

The senior executives who approve the purchase of business technology, and the industry analysts that influence them, have been very clear that they expect IT vendors to understand and respond to complex digital business transformation agendas.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Hyperconverged Systems Demand is Growing Rapidly

Integration removes complexity within IT infrastructure. Demand for pre-integrated, vendor-certified systems containing server hardware, disk storage, networking and basic element management software are growing across the globe. Solutions that provide all compute and storage functions are gaining market momentum.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

More Global IT Spend Shifts to Cloud and Hyperscale Solutions

Public cloud computing continues to impact all other forms of IT spending. Few enterprise CIOs and IT managers will increase spending on traditional data center servers, while many plan to increase their spending on converged infrastructure, according to the latest market study by 451 Research.

Source: Digital Lifescapes