Cloud
Google Cloud Revenues And Profits Flattening Out
Every business has its patterns, and so it is with Google and its hodgepodge of advertising and cloud computing. …
infrastructure
AI
A Deep Dive Into Datacenter And Server Spending Forecasts
Spending on AI systems in 2024 just utterly blew by the expectations of the major market researchers and those who dabble in metrics like we do. …
Compute
What Happens When Hyperscalers And Clouds Buy Most Servers And Storage?
We have a long-standing joke that dates from the early 2000s, when the hyperscalers – there were not yet cloud builders as we now know them – started having hundreds of millions of users and millions of servers and storage arrays to run applications for them at the same time there was the beginnings of consolidation among the OEMs who created the servers and storage used by nearly all enterprises, including dot-com startups. …
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. …
Compute
Datacenter Infrastructure Report Card, Q3 2023
It is hard to keep a model of datacenter infrastructure spending in your head at the same time you want to look at trends in cloud and on-premises spending as well as keep score among the key IT suppliers to figure out who is winning and who is losing. …
Compute
Riding The Steadily Rising Enterprise IT Market
It is tough to get excited about mature markets that grow at a steady rate unless it happens to be the most profitable part of the market. …
Compute
Server And Storage Spending Moves The Sticks Out Through 2026
There is a very interesting technical side to IT infrastructure, which we are obviously very keen on exploring here at The Next Platform. …
Cloud
As 2021 Wound Down, Big Clouds Did Record Spending On Infrastructure
The gradual trend of IT organizations spending more on dedicated or shared cloud infrastructure than they do on non-cloudy gear continues its inevitable, glacial transformation. …
Cloud
Cloud Is The Dominant Platform Consumption Model – So What?
If The Next Platform is about anything, it is about chronicling the tectonic changes that affect the IT landscape. …
Cloud
Datacenter Infrastructure Is Still Only Partly Cloudy
If you want to understand datacenter infrastructure and how the market for wares is changing, it helps to start with an absolute, top-down, all-encompassing view that brings together all server, storage, and switching revenues into a single bucket, eliminating the overlaps that occur when talking about these three different categories separately. …