Power Shift: Marketing Takes on More Information Technology Decisions

'Shadow IT' may be finally coming out of the shadows, and even leading the way in cloud computing decisions. Many of the cloud workload decisions now being made are being done so by lines of business, especially marketing.

Trend-defining research has news value, and Enterprise Cloud Adoption research, conducted by Everest Group and sponsored by UBM's Cloud Connect event, was featured at Forbes.com in this article by Joe McKendrick.

Facebook’s mystery hardware maker expands worldwide empire

Quanta is at the heart of a trend that’s remaking the worldwide server game. The big web giants have gone straight to Asia in an effort to slice the cost of operating their massive data centers, and other companies are following, including the likes of Rackspace and Goldman Sachs.

If you're part of a trend, great. If you're driving the trend, even better. Cade Metz talks to Mike Yang about Quanta's growth in an article from Wired.

Building an internal cloud? Forget HP and Dell, think Quanta

In 2011, 66 percent of Quanta’s business was making gear for big-name server vendors, with 34 percent of its business going to directly to cloud service providers. In 2012, that almost exactly flopped: 35 percent of Quanta’s business was ODM and 65 percent direct. This year, the company expects 85 percent of its revenue to come from direct sales.

If your PR firm tells you they can control headlines (or any other specific in the article), they're lying. Or maybe idiots. But sometimes, you just get lucky. Learn more about Cathey.co client Quanta from Nancy Gohring, writing for IDG News service in an article at IT World.

Quanta sold one out of every seven servers last year

Quanta has an absolutely huge and absurdly fast-growing server business that should make all of the server incumbents quake with trepidation and sharpen their envy knives.

Nothing takes the place of media outreach, relationships and research. Timothy Prickett-Morgan's profile on Cathey.co client Quanta at The Register highlights just how interested he is in the ODM-to-direct trend.

Taiwanese server makers outflanking traditional OEMs

Traditional OEMs no longer have the advantage, we do, said Mike Yang, general manager of the cloud computing group at Quanta Computer Inc., a subsidiary of the $37 billion manufacturing giant. The business model is changing and it provides us a very good opportunity.

Read more about Cathey.co client Quanta at EE Times.