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Custom server makers find a niche in volatile market |
March 01, 2014
The demand for custom servers is growing as buying trends change, with more companies designing servers in-house instead of buying from well-established vendors such as Hewlett-Packard or Dell.
Server market revenue in the fourth quarter last year was $14.2 billion, dropping by 4.4 percent compared to the same quarter in 2012, according to a survey released by IDC. The survey showed that sales from smaller white-box server makers—called “ODM Direct” by IDC—collectively growing at the fastest rate of 47.2 percent year over year.
The group of white-box server makers includes Quanta and Inventec, which make servers for companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, which have mega-datacenters and deploy servers by the thousands. Those companies design servers in-house, which are designed to handle the growing flow of search and social networking requests.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2103061/custom-server-market-grows-as-established-vendors-struggle.html#tk.rss_all
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