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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 08 June 2009 | |
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While it is tempting to simply shrug off the server slump as merely an effect of the recent global financial crisis and say "things are bad all over", the server market has been harder hit than most sectors leading some analysts to ask why. Questions have been raised as to whether there are other factors at play. After all, the past two years have witnessed a concerted push toward server consolidation from a number of differing sources, each with their own agenda. Green IT advocates are pushing the power saving line, virtualisation vendors are pushing the server under-utilisation line, a multitude of vendors are pushing the cloud computing line in an effort to shift users off internal hardware infrastructure and IT shops are looking to cut hardware costs by getting their computing resources to do more. "The challenge that many CIOs and IT organisations are facing is one of increasing costs to run their IT infrastructures and what this is leading to is a lot of reviewing and planning on thinking about how the data centre can be architected and operated differently moving forward," David Webster, managing director of EMC Australian and New Zealand told iTWire. When asked whether that meant the enterprise server market is destined to continue its slippery downward slide Webster was coy, trying to tie the fate of desktops and servers together as equal victims of recent economic hard times. "I think the reality is that in the challenging economic environment, assets such as servers and desktop computers are having their lives extended," he said. "The refresh of those technology platforms is not occurring as quickly today as probably what it occurred 12 or 18 months ago. "Also what is happening is that VMware around virtualisation is allowing the more efficient use of platforms." So does that mean the use of virtualisation, of which VMware is currently the dominant market player, has negatively impacted the server hardware space? CONTINUED Page 2 |
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