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.
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%.
Dell's PC unit fared well on the commercial side and storage sales were up in the third quarter, but servers and networking were trouble spots.
AMD projected third quarter revenue of about $1.8 billion, give or take $50 million. Wall Street expected AMD to report revenue of $1.95 billion.
Dell Technologies portfolio companies dominated the hyperconverged space, according to IDC.
The updates include three systems based on IBM's Power 7+ architecture and an x86 system dubbed the x222, which is designed for better utilization.
A licensing pact and joint venture with Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Co. is a bet by AMD that it can revive its server processor fortunes.
Apple isn't talking about its data center in North Carolina, but a few dots appear to have just been connected.
The Q System One has a modular design and parts designed to minimize interference. IBM's plan is to start scaling quantum computational center.
EMC and VMware are reportedly pondering ways to get back together. Such a deal would cost the combined entity time as the enterprise market transforms and may only lead to a HP Enterprise merger.