Networking World: Gartner analyst shares server insight

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Gartner analyst shares server insight

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
06/30/05
Today's focus: Gartner analyst shares server insight

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In this issue:

* Gartner's Jeffrey Hewitt gives his take on servers, Linux
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Today's focus: Gartner analyst shares server insight

By Deni Connor

At the recent Gartner PlanetStorage conference in Lake Buena
Vista, Fla., principal analyst Jeffrey Hewitt made several
interesting points about Linux and servers.

Among them:

* The average price of a single server has dropped more than
$18,000 since 1996, from $25,000 to just over $7,000 last year.

* Server growth is going to be constrained to the single digits.
There are some areas such as virtualization where double-digit
growth will take place.

* Among the drivers in the server market is economic growth;
  healthy economies demand server technologies. The growth of the
  Internet, cell phones, PDAs and smart phones has also driven
  server growth, as servers are needed to support the back-end
  infrastructure for these technologies.

* Linux installations are expected to have a compound annual
  growth rate of 11.7% from 2005 to 2010. The open-source
  operating system is moving from file and print services and Web
  infrastructure to line-of-business applications such as
  databases. Of the approximately 120 attendees in Hewitt's
  session, 24% used Linux for Web services, 20% used it for
  infrastructure and edge-of-network applications and 19% used it
  primarily for databases.

* Of the systems vendors shipping Linux distributions, HP is the
  leader with 24% of the shipments, followed by Dell with 20% and
  IBM with 19%. IBM leads in Linux revenue primarily because many
  of its mainframes ship with Linux.

* In blade servers, according to Gartner, IBM takes the lead
with 40% of the market, followed by HP with 36% and Sun with 6%.
Dell trails at 4%.

* The primary driver for blade servers is the expected reduction
in management costs associated with blades' greater efficiency
and the ability to install more servers in a smaller space.

* Blade servers are expected to exceed 2.5 million units and $8
billion in revenue by 2010.

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

Merrill Lynch says server market growth will be slow
Network World, 03/31/05
http://www.networkworld.com/nlservers2942

IBM tops server vendors for 2004
IDG News Service, 02/24/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0224ibmtops.html?rl
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To contact: Deni Connor

Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering
storage, Unix, Novell, Macintosh and IT in Healthcare. You can
reach her at <mailto:dconnor@nww.com>.
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to achieve a "360-degree view" of customers for better selling
and marketing.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=107441
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