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Worldwide Enterprise Server 2008 Top 10 PredictionsProduct Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: IDC Published: January 2008 Product Code: R104-32505 Description
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the worldwide server market in 2008. "Server products are rapidly changing ? with respect to both form factor and density of computing capacity provided on each server system," said Jean S. Bozman, research vice president, IDC's Enterprise Platforms group. "They are being heavily impacted by trends that are gaining adoption across the IT world: virtualization, the use of multicore processors, workload consolidation, and management of physical servers ? and the multiple virtual servers that they support." The combination of multicore processors and virtualization is making it possible to consolidate workloads that have been running on underutilized servers. The consolidation process reduces the floor space and the power/cooling requirements ? and yet it brings new challenges as well. "As more virtualized workloads run on physical servers, any interruption to the computing environment will necessarily impact more end users directly," Bozman said. "The servers will now be powerful enough, in terms of processing power and available memory and I/O, to take on enterprise workloads that were traditionally reserved for midrange servers and high-end servers. As a result, IT managers are going to have to consider how to operate and protect these enterprise workloads ? and how to ensure high availability and business continuity in the event that any one computing element goes offline." Table of Contents Table of Contents Predictions In This Study Situation Overview Future Outlook 1. Blades Will Continue Their Double-Digit Growth into 2008, Topping 10% of All Server Units Shipped and Becoming a Major Delivery Platform to Transform IT Infrastructure 2. Virtualization and Multicore Technologies Will Be Increasingly Combined as x86 Server Platforms Take on Increasingly Heavy Enterprise Workloads, Including Some That Formerly Ran Only on Unix Servers and Mainframes 3. Increasingly Robust x86 Server Platform Technology, Now Being Virtualized, Will Require New and Innovative Forms of High-Availability Software to Protect Applications 4. The Growing Complexity of VM Sprawl Across the Datacenter Will Cause Customers to Demand Improved Management Consoles, with Improved GUIs, Supporting Better Management of VMs Across the Enterprise 5. New and "Nontraditional" Vendors Will Begin to Make Inroads in the Business of Powering and Cooling Datacenters, Which Will Lead to Coopetition Via New Partnerships and Competition Among Hardware, Software, and Services Providers 6. Green IT Solutions Will Become an Important Purchasing Criteria for Customers, Resulting in More Energy-Efficient Systems and Power-Management Features 7. Form-Factor Decisions Will Play a More Important Role in Determining IT Flexibility and in Reducing Operational Costs 8. Datacenters Where Hosting and Co-Lo Activity Is Occurring Will Be Gaining Much of the New, Next-Generation Infrastructure as IT Organizations Will Increasingly Want to Outsource the Constant "Change" Process, and Upgrades, to Outside Companies 9. Telco Server Infrastructure Will See Widespread Renewal in 2008, with Design Wins from 2006 and 2007 Causing Deployments of Rack-Dense Systems Running Unix, Linux/x86 Systems, and Windows Systems ? Especially for IPTV Infrastructure 10. High-Speed Interconnects Will Reduce Latency Between Server Nodes, Promoting the Use of Scale-Out Computing to Support Databases, Transactional Systems, and Other Demanding Enterprise Workloads Essential Guidance Learn More Related Research Synopsis |
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