Amazon’s Push to the Cloud Adds to Server-Market Woes
To understand the challenges facing makers of server systems, look to health-care staffing firm Schumacher Group.
The Lafayette, La., company, has been shifting a growing proportion of its computing chores to computers operated by Amazon.com Inc. In the past year, Schumacher purchased just one server from Hewlett-Packard Co., says Douglas Menefee, Schumacher’s chief information officer.