Hyperscalers’ purchasing power means bare metal servers offered by major clouds can now be cheaper and easier to acquire than on-prem servers, according to Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami. The CEO told The Register hyperscalers’ ability to buy servers and memory in bulk means they can often make infrastructure available faster than enterprise hardware players, and sees some customers who have previously preferred on-premises infrastructure heading for the cloud. Ramaswami said he expects high memory and solid state storage prices will persist into next year and noted the impact of current price rises on the cost of servers. “What that means for customers is they need to plan and budget carefully,” he said. “They pick servers on price and lead time” – and clouds often win on both metrics. At the same time, Ramaswami said customers increasingly favor on-prem AI infrastructure to keep costs predictable.…