Facebook's own development server hits Dell and HP

Introduction: Foreign media today, said Facebook's data center is increasingly using self-developed servers, which brings new problems for server manufacturers such as Dell. The following are the main contents of the article: When Facebook started building two new data centers, engineers found they could not buy the desired servers through Dell and HP. "We can't get the product we want," said Frank Frankovsky, head of hardware design at Facebook, Frank Frankowski.　　So they started developing their own servers. With companies such as Facebook and Google increasingly developing their own servers, sales of HP, Dell and other server vendors are slipping in key markets.　　Jeffrey Hervit Jeffrey Hewitt, a Gartner analyst, said that in the U.S. server market, these highly customized servers accounted for 20%, and last year, such servers in the global market sales reached 31.9 billion U.S. dollars. As PC sales slide and consumers shift to tablets like ipads, computer makers are relying more on server sales.　　Dell and Hewlett-Packard are facing serious problems because of the gradual loss of big clients like Facebook. "This is a threat to the traditional business model," said Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at ISUPPLI, a marketing research firm. Customers are looking for solutions that are not ready for the industry. "Buyers believe that customized servers can provide cheaper and more effective solutions to meet the needs of personal data sharing on the Internet." In many cases, some parts of a common server, as well as upgrades and backup services, are not necessary. "People want to be able to build servers in their own way," Frankowski at The Dell-Samsung CIO Forum. "In the second quarter of this year, the U.S. server market grew by nearly 20% per cent, growing much higher than the desktop PC market."　　Many businesses are upgrading their internal networks and purchasing a large number of servers that apply to data centers. The demand for servers in the market is favorable for companies like HP, Dell and IBM. However, as data centers become more expensive to run and maintain, Facebook and other companies are starting to look for cheap alternatives. HP has cut its profit forecasts 3 times since last November. In the second quarter of this year, HP server business revenue growth was lower than the industry average. (AU) to share: