Hyperscale sippers go crazy at the storage bar, judging from IDC digits

Cloud giants prefer drinking direct from servers than having tequila SAN-rise cocktails

The storage market was hot, hot, hot in the first quarter of this year - according to IDC's bean counters, who reckoned shipped capacity rose 79.1 per cent, year on year, to 98.8EB and revenues 34.4 per cent to $13bn."