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IDC has clipped 2019 sales forecasts for the infrastructure kit used to power hyperscalers' cloud services – the one area of the market that helped to prop up old world vendors' hardware revenues. Wafting away the earlier 6.1 per cent growth estimate, the boxcounters lowered their growth projection to a rather more modest year …

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  1. Fazal Majid

    I thought hyperscalers didn't buy from Enteprise server vendors

    Certainly Google and Facebook go direct to ODMs like Quanta for their servers, with none of the proprietary lock-in "value add" the enterprise vendors love to include. With projects like Open Compute, you'd think smaller hosters like Rackspace would follow as well.

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