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Demand For Custom Datacenter Servers Rising

Posted by Soulskill on from the shut-up-and-take-my-money dept.

With his first posted submission, SpaceCracker writes "According to this Bloomberg article, hardware giants like HP and Dell are losing out to Intel and others who've adapted more quickly to the trend of shifting from traditional, off-the-shelf servers to custom-tailored machines. 'Buyers say custom servers provide a cheaper, more efficient way of meeting the boom in demand for personal data shared via the Web. A lot of that demand can be met by less expensive machines shorn of the components, upgrades and backup services that server makers traditionally offer to large corporations.'"

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  1. HP and Dell do this to themselves by h4rr4r · · Score: 2

    If you want 12 core Opterons you are automatically required to get a 2U machine from dell. It does not matter than the 1U machines could use those parts, they do this to improve their margins.

    Lots of stuff like that, feature X only is enabled on Platform Y. Intentional crippling of hardware leads to this big buyers side stepping these vendors.

    1. Re:HP and Dell do this to themselves by drsmithy · · Score: 2

      If you want 12 core Opterons you are automatically required to get a 2U machine from dell. It does not matter than the 1U machines could use those parts, they do this to improve their margins.

      Identically configured 1U and 2U machines cost essentially the same anyway (or at least they did the last time I priced them out - been nothing but blades for a while now).

  2. Re:Not custom... by houstonbofh · · Score: 2

    That is just software. How about hardware? Why do you need a chipset with high end RAID and 12 SATA ports when you are going to install a LSI card? Look under the hood and you see the same crap, but worse.

  3. IT BEGAN by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 2

    With Compaq SmartStart.

    What a hell! Then, they required it for initial boot! And every other manufacturer saw this as worthy of emulation.

    They were awfully captive to a Windows-oriented market, and driven by MS.

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  4. SSD Prices by zbobet2012 · · Score: 3

    HP and Dell are also killing themselves on SSD prices as datacenters move to these for there increased reliability and performance. HP and Dell are both anywhere from 10 to 20x the prices of other parties.

    Also TFA is about datacenter servers, which always come with either get re-imaged by large customers to whatever there operational image is. Almost none of the people listed here would deploy on OS that "ships" with the box, so all the bloatware complaints are idiotic.