Four data center spending trends you need to know
Data center spending is likely to be feast or famine as enterprises pull back and hyperscale cloud providers build out infrastructure only to hit pause and digest.
Data center spending is likely to be feast or famine as enterprises pull back and hyperscale cloud providers build out infrastructure only to hit pause and digest.
Thierry Pellegrino, vice president of data-centric workloads and solutions at Dell Technologies, said the company's goal is to democratize HPC.
Dell's infrastructure unit struggled in the fourth quarter with revenue of $8.8 billion, down 11%. Storage revenue fell 3% while servers and networking revenue fell 19%.
Intel said cloud growth continued but enterprise demand fell. PC processor sales were up 1%.
Remote education and work gave Dell Technologies a big second quarter boost.
Nokia is entering the data center switch market dominated by the likes of Cisco, but the company is betting that its Web scale approach will gain traction.
AMD's results land as its primary rival Intel has been struggling with its 7nm roadmap delays.
HPE did say it was making progress on its as-a-service pivot and exited the second quarter with twice the usual order backlog. The company is cutting executive salaries and looking to realign its workforce to focus on growth areas.
Dell Technologies is betting that integrated systems, more efficient use of GPUs and the ability run AI workloads within VMware environments will boost AI workloads.
Dell added new servers, a data platform and a micro data center to its edge computing lineup.