Four disruptive factors are set force dramatic changes in the data center market by year-end 2016, according to Gartner.

A Gartner report found highly disruptive competition, big Cloud provider dominance, economic warfare and nationalism will occur with different intensities over different time frames.

However, at least two of these factors will drive significant disruption within the next three years, and elements of all four will drive the opportunities and risks in the data center market during the next three to four years.

In Australia, spending on data center hardware is forecast to reach almost A$1.7 billion in 2014, and A$1.8 billion next year.

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