Cloud-driven server market picks up

Taiwan media said as a result of the global economic recovery coupled with the rapid development of cloud computing, the enterprises to enhance the capacity of the server integration resources increased demand, coupled with the previous financial tsunami and suppressed by the demand for machine, many large enterprises are very optimistic about this year's machine and upgrade, a number of new servers ready to occupy market.

Hewlett-Packard said the company had frozen IT spending in the wake of the global financial tsunami, and as the server market recovered in the 4th quarter of last year, HP's UNIX server had overtaken IBM, its rival, in Taiwan.

As the server market warmed up from the 4th quarter of last year to this year, Hewlett-Packard officials said that Taiwan's server-switching and upgrade boom was most visible in the manufacturing sector, with the Hsinchu Science Park being the most visible, and that the financial sector's change of machines and upgrades would also erupt in the second half.

In addition, cloud computing is also driving the development of the server market, Hewlett-Packard pointed out that the enterprise is currently in the construction of private cloud, for the integration of server resources, the demand for a large increase in the forecast will be the old machine of the change or upgrade.

The boss of Asus Server Department has said that because of the rise of cloud computing, the server from the past no attention, change to the public attention.

Focus on the Enterprise server market, HP launched integrity new series of high-end servers, software and services, the integration of the old fragmented applications, to operate without downtime short-based the market.

Chip maker AMD also launched a server with processor Opteron 6000 this month, and said the product line symbolizes a new era of server value, subverting the current server's economic model to emphasize the efficiency, value and stability of each tile to meet the consumer's demand for the actual data center processing load.

Dell also unveiled 3 new PowerEdge servers with Intel processors this month, emphasizing virtualization, accelerating resource consolidation, supporting critical tasks, and publishing 1 new servers in May with a new Ultra Micro (AMD) processor.