In Three Years, Nearly 45% of All the Servers Will Ship To Cloud Providers

dcblogs writes "IDC expects that anywhere from 25% to 30% of all the servers shipped next year will be delivered to cloud services providers. In three years, 2017, nearly 45% of all the servers leaving manufacturers will be bought by cloud providers. The shift is slowing the purchase of server sales to enterprise IT. The increased use of SaaS is a major reason for the market shift, but so is virtualization to increase server capacity. Data center consolidations are eliminating servers as well, along with the purchase of denser servers capable of handling larger loads. The increased use of cloud-based providers is roiling the server market, and is expected to help send server revenue down 3.5% this year, according to IDC."

What could possibly go wrong?

[Anne Thwacks]

In a three years, nearly everyone will send their own data to the NSA without even having to be asked!

Re:What could possibly go wrong?

[Anonymous Coward]

So what. Do you have something to hide?

Everyone's a Cloud Provider these days.

[PolygamousRanchKid]

If you don't have "Cloud Provider" in your services portfolio, you're like, so totally last century. Nobody provides server hosting or IT services these days. Everyone does cloud, man. The same old IT department at your employer is now a Cloud Provider.

If you have a server in your mom's basement . . . congratulations, you are a cloud provider!

It's all so everyone can claim that they are doing Cloud.