'It's not getting better': Ingram Micro director on supply chain shortages
Supply chain shortages will persist into Q4 2023, according to Ingram executive director John Tonthat
Supply chain shortages will persist into Q4 2023, at least in the compute, network and storage arena, an Ingram Micro director has warned.
As reported by CRN sister title CRN US, Ingram executive director John Tonthat said that the distributor's forecasting for 2023 with its largest vendors including Cisco, HP, Dell and IBM "all show products that push back well into the back-half of 2023".
Gartner declared last week that supply chain disruptions in the PC market have "finally eased".
Tonthat agreed that the supply chain shortages are easing up on client devices but not in the datacentre with compute, storage and especially with networking products.
"It's not getting better," Tonthat acknowledged in a keynote address before several hundred CIOs at GreenPages' Cloudscape 2022 conference.
"Across the three tiers of compute, network and storage- network is particularly hampered by supply chain through Q4 of next year," he added during an interview with CRN US.
In CRN's recent Top Distributors report, the distribution CEOs we interviewed during the summer were split down the middle on whether the chip shortage is easing or not. Some were braced for disruption for at least another year, however.
"I think we will be talking about shortages as a feature of the market this time next year still." TD Synnex's UK MD Dave Watts said at the time of the report.
"We don't anticipate this to be resolved until the end of 2023," said Titan Data Solutions MD Ben Jackson, while DCC Technology leader Tim Griffin (pictured above) admitted that the "the end [is] a way off yet I suspect".