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By: Jessica Davis
10 December 2009 | [ci] channelinsider | Original Article

When the dust settles at the end of 2009, who stands to gain in terms of server sales? …

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11 September 2009 – I spent a portion of last week at VMworld in San Francisco, meeting with clients and catching up on the latest technologies and products.  With over 10,000 attendees, nearly every server and virtualization vendor had a presence, with many showing new or upcoming products.  Overall, four things stood out in my mind.

1) Desktop Virtualization is Heating Up.  Nearly every aisle featured a vendor showing thin client devices, with most intended for use with a Citrix or VMware/VDI-based server offering. After 186 of roughly 290 interviews have been compiled for the current Wave 8 study, 16% cited such appliances in use, but another 21% listed them as “in plan”. On the server software side, 36% cited a server based offering,  primarily Citrix or VMware, with another 21% reporting it as in plan.  The discrepancy between thin client devices and servers comes from cases where PCs and not thin clients are used at the desktop.

2) Virtualization management tools are coming of age, with capacity planning and monitoring capabilities being shown by Server vendors, storage vendors, and specialized server software companies. If there’s one thing that early Wave 8 data is showing, its that while users are eagerly looking for such tools, the are specifying a large and very diverse group of vendors they expect to deal with.  The market is that wide open.

3) Users I spoke with were surprisingly open to the likelihood of hosting competing technologies for x86 virtualization, despite the current lack of common management tools or pooling capabilities.  One rationale described repeatedly is that Windows Server 2008 will be broadly deployed in 2010 for reasons other than HyperV, but with the capability latent with the server offering, it will be used in development and test applications, or where the technical demands don’t warrant VMware.  In Wave 8 so far, fully 45% report that they either will or may support a set of mixed technologies for x86 virtualization.

4) Finally, Cisco filled a massive lobby with a giant UCS implementation, showing an entire datacenter’s worth of computing networking and storage equipment.  While on the one hand it was obviously far more homogeneous in terms of computing resources than any server pro could dream of having, it was extremely impressive to highlight the massive efficiencies and cost savings that someone building an infrastructure from scratch could achieve with the VMware-driven solution.  It was a living example of what a next generation virtualized infrastructure might be, given the right circumstances.

– Bob Gill, Managing Director of Server Research and Advisory Services

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By Jon Brodkin
02 September 2009 | NetworkWorld | Original Article

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Linux deployments are growing and Windows Server application loads are moving
to virtual hosts as IT professionals look to virtualization as a means of leveraging existing assets while waiting out the recession.

New York – June 4, 2009 – TheInfoPro, an independent research company for the IT industry, today announced that findings from its most recent Servers Study reflect that the depressed server hardware market is being caused by a confluence of the economic downturn and the …

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