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Worldwide Server 2007 Top 10 PredictionsProduct Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: IDC Published: February 2007 Product Code: R104-29487 Description
This IDC study looks at the top 10 predictions for the worldwide server market, comprising both commercial computing and technical computing. These predictions are published annually, and the list presented in this study represents a mix of predictions: Half are from IDC's Enterprise Servers: Technology Markets group and half are from IDC's Technical Computing group. "Vendors that wish to succeed in both segments of the worldwide server market must leverage the key trends toward enablement of a distributed-computing infrastructure, the evolution of a more universal form of management for server nodes, and the need to keep capex and opex in check," said Jean S. Bozman, research vice president in IDC's Enterprise Servers group. "The winning solutions will resonate with customers' needs to transform their current computing infrastructure ? and to manage it better, and more flexibly, than in the past, in a 24 x 7 x 365 Internet-enabled world." Table of Contents Table of Contents Predictions In This Study Situation Overview Future Outlook 1. Server Virtualization, Combined with Improved Multicore Processor Technology, Will Have a Negative Impact on Server Processor Consumption and a Positive Impact on Server Memory Consumption 2. The Year 2007 Will Be a Make-or-Break Year for Grid Computing 3. Virtualization Usage Models Will Continue to Change and Are Increasingly Addressing the Availability and Disaster Recovery Needs of Virtual Machines 4. The Pressing Issues of Power and Cooling Will Increasingly Drive IT Decisions in the Datacenter 5. The Installation of Bladed Servers Will Top 10% of All New Servers Shipped in 2007 6. Processor Accelerators, Packaged with General-Purpose Microprocessors, Will Begin to Enter the Market as the "Next Best Thing" in HPC Technology 7. Clusters Will Become the "Industry Standard" HPC Server 8. Capacity-Oriented Markets Within the Technical Computing Space Will Place Greater Emphasis on Operational Expense Factors 9. Grid Technologies Will Continue to Be Integrated into Technical Computing Software Environments 10. The First Petascale Supercomputers Will Hit the Market in 2007 Essential Guidance For Current Vendors For New Entrants For IT managers and Technical Users Learn More Related Research Synopsis |
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