AI
Even AI Can’t Predict How Much Accelerated Iron The World Will Buy
As we have said many times here at The Next Platform, the only way to predict the actual future is to live it. …
forecast
AI
The World Will Eat $2 Trillion In AI Servers, AI Will Eat The World Right Back
Every time Lisa Su, chief executive officer at AMD, announces a new Instinct GPU accelerator, the addressable market for AI acceleration in the datacenter seems to expand. …
Compute
IDC Boosts Datacenter Compute And Storage Spending Forecast
When you have to compile the revenue streams of thousands of major IT hardware, software, and services suppliers into the datacenter, it takes a bit of time to get that data, get it right, and then aggregate it for a datacenter market analysis. …
Compute
Server And Storage Spending Growth Looks Rosy Out To 2027
For a market that is so integral to the global economy, it sure is hard to get a complete dataset on quarterly and annual spending on information technology. …
AI
IT Spending In 2024 Cools Thanks To “Change Fatigue”
Change may be inevitable, but it is also a pain in the neck. …
Compute
The Interplay Of GDP, Inflation, And IT Spending
Data changes behavior and behavior changes data. It is a phenomenon that is akin to the Observer Effect in physics in that you can’t observe something without changing its behavior. …
Cloud
Cloud Spending Curtailed, On Premises Spending Heading Into Recession
The central bankers of the world want to curb inflation by putting a serious crimp in demand, and it looks like they may get what they want – sort of – in 2023 when it comes to datacenter infrastructure. …
Compute
Inflation Up, Economy Jittery, And IT Spending Consequentially Slows
The increasing cost of goods and services is making everyone a little crazy, and corporate IT departments are not immune from the effects of the dual concerns of rising inflation and the desire by central banks to use interest rates to curb our economic enthusiasm and slow that inflation to a much more sane level. …
Compute
What The IT Spending Forecasts Don’t Tell You
There are so many annual rites in the IT sector that it almost has the feel of a religion sometimes. …