Re:The Booming Server Market in the Wake of Skylake
by akvadrako on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @08:42AM
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People who buy a lot of servers look more carefully into their purchases than consumers. Brand reputation does matter, but if you can save 10% by switching to another quality brand, it's a no brainer. Of course you'll want to do a evaluation run for a few months.
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Re:The Booming Server Market in the Wake of Skylake
by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @09:25AM
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There are going to be small shops for which the familiarity of Xeon will be enough to keep them in the same pattern. If 10% of your costs are just a few weeks or months of engineer time, and you only have an engineer or two to spare, it's a big risk and expense to figure out the different costs and to do that evaluation run. There are a lot of shops like that.
There are not as many huge enterprises, but they are a huge amount of the market in terms of volume, and at those scales a 1% savings is worth years of engineering expenses, and you can bet that they will be doing the studies and choosing the most cost-effective option regardless of previous decisions.