The Server Refresh Cycle Loses Steam
June 13, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan
With one way of looking at it, the server market that drives the IT business is very mature and relatively flat, which shows demand for compute (and in some cases storage) remains steady and healthy. But in another way of looking at it, in a world obsessed by growth and often demanding it to drive revenues, profits, and stock prices, the server market has taken a dip and this is bad news. Which way is it? Like an electron, perhaps, it is neither and both at the same time. What we can tell you is that the box counters at |