Public cloud providers will accelerate spending on data center hardware (servers, storage, and Ethernet switches), in the second half of the year, while spending on IT gear for traditional on-premise enterprise data centers will decline slightly, according to the latest data from IDC.
On-prem IT infrastructure will still account for more than 60 percent of all end-user hardware spending this year, these end users will have spent 4.4 percent less than they spent in 2015, according to the analysts. This is while public cloud providers are projected to increase their annual…