To: stockman_scott who wrote (15591 ) 1/4/2003 1:31:28 PM From: Lizzie Tudor Respond to that is a very interesting article Scott.Information technology (IT) departments simply bought too many servers, storage devices, and PCs in preparation for Y2K, the introduction of the euro, and an e-commerce bonanza that, like an absinthe-induced hallucination, seemed very real at the time, but vanished following the dot-com crash. Consider a company that has located its Web retail system and its financial system in the same conventional data center. If the Web retail system uses up all its capacity, transactions must wait their turn to be processed. Even though the financial system might be running at only 30 percent of its capacity, the retail system has no automatic way of borrowing from it. like to have on customers to run analytics to sell more. Theoretically, you'd like to have everything that customer ever bought available to determine upsell possibilities. As it stands some of these web retailers can barely keep a year online and their current customer profiles.These days, the disk storage business is looking a lot like the server market. "There has been growth in unit sales of servers, but not much growth in dollars and I think storage is beginning to take on that same characteristic," says Gartner's research vice president Roger W. Cox. 1:48 pm PT Hewlett-Packard upped to Strong Buy from Outperformby SG Cowen (HPQ) 18.57 +0.37:
