Data centers decline

>>59855716
>>The global square footage of data centers, after recent boom times, is also expected to slide.
that's because of bladecenters and SANs though.

One datacenter at my old work had like 5 racks filled with servers. Then they moved to a bladecenter over a rather long time. Now they have only three racks filled. One with a bladecenter, the other with harddrives.

>>59855739
Also greater rack density through virtualization

If we could hoard all the data in the world into one place, and throw away anything that's worthless junk would we even have 1GB?

>>59856081
If you considered everyone's opinion about what part of all of our data is 'worthless' then we'd have zero bytes purged ;)

>The number of data centers worldwide peaked at 8.55 million in 2015, according to IDC. That figure began declining last year, and is expected to drop to an expected 8.4 million this year. By 2021, the research firm expects there to be 7.2 million data centers globally, more than 15% fewer than in 2015.

Shouldn't the market be flooded with dirt cheap used server hardware in that case?

>>59856516
It is, look on eBay and AliExpress
Most of it is Nehalem and Bulldozer hardware though

>>59856516
>>59856946
Still need a decent rack which always seems to be fucking expensive for one that doesn't look like its been hoarded in the Boss's bathroom for 13 years

>>59855739
This. Worked for company with 32 racks that were already blades. We condensed all servers down into a single rack of Cisco UCS blades. We still had about 10 racks of storage and some racks with random appliances and network gear, but VMware hosts all down to one rack.