Datacentres Europe 2014: Brand-name data centre servers have 'three to five years until extinction', predicts VMware CTO

Charlee Gothard
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Future of industry lies in "white boxes made by companies you've never heard of", says Joe Baguley

Brand-name data centre servers have only between three and five years until they are replaced by white boxes built by unknowns, as software-defined data centres take hold. This is according to V...

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