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Wired magazine commented that the internet industry is undergoing a major change, just as the advent of containers has transformed the traditional transport industry, the emergence of "digital factory" has also led the Internet sector to face new data storage and transmission patterns. Massive http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14345.html "> data processing allows many companies to start building their own servers and data centers, and the traditional three server manufacturers IBM, HP and Dell face challenges.

The first modern container ship sailed from Newark, United States, to Houston in 1956. Nowadays, it is very easy to ship goods in large containers, complete the transport of cargo ships with trains or big trucks, and then ship them to factories or destinations. However, in those days, the first container loading and transportation concept was successfully realized after several years of planning.

The use of containers is a major innovation in the global transport industry, making it easier and quicker to transport large quantities of cheap goods between ports. In an instant, the past small crates and the shore of the loading and unloading work lost its value, goods with containers shipped to a factory, time-saving, save money and effort.

Similar changes are taking place in today's internet industry, but the change is in digital transport, not traditional physical transport, and some digital factories have emerged, which is often said to be the data center.

The role of data center server providers, such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, is like the previous small crates and loading and unloading work, enterprises to the three giants to buy servers for their respective data storage and transmission. However, businesses are now starting to build their own servers and data centers. Since building servers and data centers is good for efficiency, the rise of the "digital Factory", similar to the rise of the physical plant, will lead to a new mode of business operation.

We are witnessing this change, which makes it impossible for industry companies to continue to rely on small servers, such as Facebook, Google and Amazon. As a result, they began to build fast and flexible "digital factory", and these self-built data centers can handle massive data.

Intel Chief Information Officer (CIO) Bryant (Diane Bryant) shared a set of interesting data a few months ago. In 2008, 75% of Intel's server chips came from three major server manufacturers, IBM, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, but by 2012 the same 75% revenue came from eight companies, no longer the three giants.

Four years ago, most companies bought servers from the big Three, and the latest data from Bryant revealed a major shift in the market. Hewlett-Packard denies the authenticity of the data, claiming that the market share of HP, Dell and IBM's three companies is still up to 73.9%. Looking back at recent developments in the data center, Bryant's data shows that the traditional server industry is facing a new destiny, presenting three key trends:

Enterprise data centers are growing. Today, because of the huge data processing needs, a single company has the same number of servers as the total number of servers in the previous vendor. Imagine that if Dell were to sell 2 million servers a year and a company would need 1 million units, equivalent to half of Dell's business, the company would be aware of the importance of its own production servers. Google ranked fifth among the top eight server manufacturers listed by Intel, and the search engine's servers were not sold for their own business needs.

The company that manufactures parts and components goes to the road of integration and standardization. Fewer companies are producing server components, with only three of the main chipmakers left, namely, Intel, Samsung and TSMC; the hard drive is left with only two, the Seagate Technology and the western data. This unprecedented consolidation makes it easier to build data centers because parts are more standardised.

Parts commercialization. Once, the server itself as a commodity for sale, and now, the server parts, such as motherboards and chips, etc., began to become the sale of goods, indicating the market changes. Indicates that the company is now starting its own production servers, building data centers, and no longer buying servers from outside or renting data centers. More importantly, Intel has been aware of this change and has started to provide warranty services for individual components.

The changes that we now witness to the servers and data centers are very similar to the changes brought about by containers 50 years ago. The advent of containers has changed the way we store and transport physical objects, and the advent of data centers has changed the way we store and transmit electronic products. Before the advent of the data center, computers and servers had dominated the Internet industry, as before the advent of containers, small crates had dominated the industry.