Datacenter server competition has recently expanded from North America to Europe and players including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Quanta Computer and Wistron's server subsidiary, Wiwynn, have been aggressively seeking cooperation with telecom carriers and datacenter hosts in Europe to push for business opportunities.
With more players joining North America's datacenter server market, and the global economy recovering at a rather slow pace, competition has grown fiercer and demand for cloud computing has not been performing as strongly as expected, forcing Quanta and Wiwynn to turn to Europe and second-tier Internet service providers for orders.
In the past, enterprises in Europe, compared to those in North America, had far less demand for cloud datacenters. However, with the Safe Harbor Decision declared invalid by the European Court, concerns about US enterprises' privacy security measures have boosted demand for establishing datacenters in Europe, attracting several server players to join the market.
Quanta is planning to establish a sales team at its server manufacturing factories in Germany in May and has cooperated with Ericsson to push into the market.
Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry) subsidiary as well as Wiwynn have also been expanding their presences in Europe. Currently, they are mainly partnering with Europe's telecom carriers and datacenter hosts and will start pushing private cloud solutions to large enterprises.
Article translated by Joseph Tsai
