Survey: Companies Expect to Buy More On-Prem Data Center Gear
Cloud giants may be growing nicely, but there’s still a lot of money to be made in enterprise hardware
• Top IT folks at most of the 151 North American organizations with their own data centers surveyed recently by IHS Markit expect to at least double the amount of physical servers in their data centers by 2019
• Many expect to also stock up on everything from storage, switches, and routers to security appliances, load balancers, and WAN optimization appliances
• The uptick in on-premises data center spend is driven by companies’ need to modernize infrastructure to support increasingly digital business