XaaS Is Taking Over The Datacenter And IDC Says You Asked For It
The Register, December 16th, 2022
As customers grapple with pricey AI systems and nontraditional compute, HPE, Dell, and Lenovo circle in wait
There's no arguing that the cloud has changed the way we think about deploying our applications and workloads. It served to normalize consumption-based pricing and gave birth to a slew of as-a-service platforms from legacy vendors desperately trying to keep up with changing customer appetites.
Over the past few years, companies like Dell, HPE, Cisco and others have gotten behind the idea of delivering their equipment, support, and even software as a service, and it appears their efforts were justified.