Worldwide Enterprise Server 2010 Top 10 Predictions

Worldwide Enterprise Server 2010 Top 10 Predictions published by IDC in February, 2010. This report consists of Pages: 10 and the price starts from US $ 3500.

Introduction

Abstract

This IDC study provides our top 10 predictions for the worldwide server market in 2010. This "10 for ' 10" list provides analysis for each of the predictions listed, and it provides the rationale for each prediction being made. This document offers the views of IDC' s server group analysts for what major transitions will start, continue, or complete during 2010. A list of reference documents is also provided.

The worldwide server market saw a sharp downturn in 2009, as the economic downturn pushed revenue down by double digits compared with CY08 and unit shipments dipped below the 8-million-unit record set in 2008," said Jean S. Bozman, research vice president, IDC Enterprise Platforms Group. "IDC believes that the server market will see single-digit growth and overall stabilization of demand. And yet, there will be a new "normal" whose shape has not yet been seen. Pockets of faster growth may emerge in some areas of Asia/Pacific in 2010, but most regions will see moderate improvements in revenue and unit shipments compared with 2009."

Table of Contents

• Predictions
• In This Study
• Situation Overview
• FUTURE Outlook
• 1. A Technology Refresh Cycle, Combined with Delayed/Deferred Server Acquisitions and IT Budget Improvements, Will Drive an Inflection Point for the Server Market, with Modest Growth Resuming in 2010
• 2. Converged Infrastructure Will Emerge as a Major Objective of New IT Projects, Both to Accelerate Virtualization and as a Stepping-Stone to Cloud Computing
• 3. Infrastructure Renewal Initiatives Will Increasingly Involve Cloud Migration Considerations in 2010; Workloads Will Be the Critical Pivot Points for These Decisions
• 4. 2010 Will Be a Crossover Year for Virtualization; More Virtual Servers Will Be Shipped than Physical Servers as Adoption Increases and VM Densities Rise
• 5. The Relatively Homogenous x86 Volume Market Will Begin Bifurcating into a Value-Driven Market, with Microservers at the Low End and Scalable, Multicore Servers at the High End of the x86 Server Range
• 6. Advances in x86 Processor Architectures Will Drive Multicore to New Levels with Releases of 8- and 12-Core CPUs, Which Will Push x86 Servers Upmarket to Address High-End Workloads, Including Ones Traditionally Run on Unix Servers
• 7. After Weathering the Recession, Blade Server Sales Will Accelerate Faster than Any Other Market Segment in 2010, Driven by IT' s Quest for Flexible Deployments and Unified Management
• 8. Oracle' s Acquisition of Sun Will Change the Dynamics of the Server Market as Oracle Focuses on Building Scale-Up, High-Value Servers for the Enterprise Datacenter — and Selling Software for Scale-Out, High-Volume x86 Server Deployments
• 9. Customers Will Focus on the Operational and Business Impacts of the Datacenter as the Vendor Marketing Emphasis Shifts from "Green" to "Energy Efficient"
• 10. 2010 Will Herald the Beginning of Recovery for the Enterprise Datacenter Market and Help Fuel the Ongoing Growth of the Scale-Out Datacenter
• Essential Guidance
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• Related Research
• Synopsis

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