IBM, Oracle hail ‘resilient’ on-premise compute despite AI data centre boom
The local leaders of two of the world’s most established technology companies both see rising demand for on premise equipment as the AI revolution kicks into gear.
As Australian governments focus their attention on large-scale data centre projects as to capitalise on the AI investment boom, IBM is deepening its commitment to on-premise compute.
IBM managing director for Australia and New Zealand Nicholas Flood told Capital Brief it is continuing to service a “remarkably resilient” amount of demand for expanding on-premise mainframes, racks of servers that are installed inside their clients’ offices, and hybrid cloud offerings.
“I have been stunned at the rate of on-premise infrastructure growth that we’ve seen here in the Australian business over the past five years,” Flood said.
Flood said that contrary to expectations, the company’s on-premise infrastructure revenue has grown over the last five years, including through the deployment of NVIDIA GPUs directly into servers installed in offices.
