Cloud investments spur server sales
“These evolutionary, and revolutionary, changes in IT deployment and business attitudes are having a profound impact on traditional IT environments,” says IDC senior research analyst Katie Broderick.
According to the market watcher, the number of servers shipped for deployment in both public and private clouds will soar by more than 20% annually over the next five years as IT managers move to simplify their datacentres, writes ChannelWeb.
According to BataNews, public clouds are generally being built around simpler server infrastructure, according to IDC. The analyst firm forecasts 1.2 million servers shipped in 2015, with compound annual growth rate of 21.1%.
By comparison, businesses are investing in more robust hardware for their private clouds, choosing advanced CPUs, lots of memory and optimising for high bandwidth usage.
While IDC forecasts just 570 000 private cloud servers shipped in 2015, they will generate substantially more revenue and CAGR of 22.4%.
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