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Server sales across the European channel fell to their lowest level in four years over the third quarter of 2021, as the long-awaited recovery in infrastructure spending failed to show up – with shrinking volumes reported for 18 countries.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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