The rise of individual companies as big as the big server vendors:

Today, it’s pretty much evident that there is so much need of data preservation where individual companies have started commanding themselves a server volume close to the size of a single vendor’s entire business. For example, if HP has 2 million servers and your company needs around half a million, then you occupy around half of your vendors’ server supply. This makes individual companies to think the other way round. This where companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon comes into play. These companies never supply their servers. It simply needs more servers to run their businesses, that it makes sense to build the servers and data centers themselves rather depending on heavyweight server vendors.

Companies making individual parts are gaining more strength:

Another trend on the rise is companies that manufacture server components are getting consolidated and standardized. Intel, Samsung and TSMC are the three major fabricators in the server business, with Seagate and Western Digital completing the hard drive department.  The rise of these companies has resulted in more standardization of parts as companies now are able to pick and choose individual components as per their wish in building their own data centers.

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