No ‘independent chip makers and system makers and storage makers’: Industry expert paints bleakest picture of future of IT — insatiable tech appetite of Google, Microsoft and other hyperscalers could kill off competition forever

In IDC’s own words, its Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment is “designed to provide clients with a better understanding of how enterprise infrastructure technologies (server, external enterprise storage systems, purpose-built appliances: HCI and PBBA) are being deployed in cloud environments and what type of buyers are acquiring them.” The Next Platform … Read more

Seagate Exos 24TB HDD storage for hyperscalers

Seagate has recently unveiled its latest offering, the Exos X24 hard drives. These drives are designed to cater to the needs of hyperscale customers and enterprises running scale-out data centers. With 10 disks that each deliver 2.4 TB of storage, the Exos X24 is the highest density hard drive that Seagate has produced to date. … Read more