@ChadSakac, head of #Dell #EMC 's Converged Platforms and Systems business, estimates that in as little as four years, the majority of data center hardware could be sold as part of engineered systems and platforms for customers demanding turnkey solutions for their cloud-based businesses. The transition is already putting intense pressure on vendors, as well as solution providers. Just last week, research firm Gartner's third-quarter data showed significant, across-the-board declines for the server market's major vendors in both revenue and shipments. Major solution providers also have posted steep declines as the market shifts, and many are wary of committing resources to hiring and development of a hyper-convergence practice before booking any revenue in that area. "If their business was in the assembly of goods, packaging things together for purchasing or in assembly on-site, and that was the bulk of their value, that is getting to be harder and harder every single day," Sakac told CRN in an exclusive interview. While Sakac, who became president of #VCE, now known as the Converged Platforms and Systems Division of Dell EMC last January, recognizes that the vast majority of server and storage hardware sales still follow traditional patterns, growth in that market has all but stopped, he said. And while growth in converged and hyper-converged systems has been explosive, that play still represents a tiny fraction of the market.
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