Fusion infrastructure server vendors to focus

YORK server channel July 29 news since 2008, the converged system market is gradually prosperous, after several years of development, the market is no longer this type of IT infrastructure as a novelty, the increasing acceptance of enterprises, Fusion system market has entered a period of steady development. Major server vendors have also integrated system architecture products as an essential product line category.

The so-called converged system or integrated system refers to an integrated solution formed by integrating the necessary hardware such as server, storage, network and necessary software for application optimization and debugging. Its main purpose is to minimize the system Deployment time and IT operation and maintenance costs, so that enterprises will spend more time and energy instead of tedious deployment and operation and maintenance.

Historically, IT infrastructure has evolved from centralized to distributed, from mainframes to minicomputers to x86 servers. In recent years, with the advent of converged systems, there have been two distinct developments in the enterprise IT market: on the one hand Is the cloud computing, the prosperity of the Internet to promote the development of customized, miniaturized distributed infrastructure, such as Facebook, Google and other large Internet companies in the data center to adopt a large number of custom servers; On the one hand, server, storage, network, etc. Distributed Equipment is gradually moving toward integration.

Today, converged systems have been sought after by many traditional enterprise hardware and software vendors. A large number of IT vendors such as VCE Alliance (VMware, Cisco, EMC), NetApp, Oracle, Huawei, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell and others have all participated in the converged system market. And put the integration system as an important growth point and put great efforts into it.

Just recently, IBM held a new Core Fusion Blade Architecture Forum, once again demonstrated a new generation of blade fusion system Flex Systems. Among the System x family, Flex Systems is a unique product that is the core hardware infrastructure for PureSystems expert integrated systems and a new generation of converged blade systems from IBM.

According to Gan Zhaoming, product director for x86 and PureSystems in Greater China at IBM Systems and Technology Division, the Flex Systems converged architecture saves 30% on energy costs, 66% on first-day deployments and 80% on data center space requirements, compared to traditional IT environments. , Network connection cable to reduce 92%.

Not only IBM, HP and AMD unveiled the HP ConvergedSystem 100, a converged system based on the HP Moonshot ProLiant m700 micro-server. Moonshot is for workers who need a complete desktop environment but do not need to use a CAD desktop. Compared to traditional desktops, the HP ConvergedSystem 100 for managed desktops delivers a 44% lower total cost of ownership, 63% less power and up to 90 times faster deployment times than traditional PCs.

The Gartner and IDC data on the integrated system market is more to illustrate the issue, the latest Gartner Magic quadrant on the integrated system market announcement, led by the VCE coalition of Cisco, EMC and VMware Big Three, Cisco and NetApp's FlexPod system followed After Oracle ranked third.

Gartner said it expects that in 2015, the cost of system integration will account for 10% of the entire data center investment. With $ 147 billion in the data center market in 2015, there will be $ 14.7 billion in market space for system integration. The main drivers for the integrated systems market are balance of performance and cost, IT optimization and automation, continuous streamlining of sourcing and technical support, and faster deployment of infrastructure.

Not only did Gartner be optimistic about the system integration market, data from IDC also showed that global integrated infrastructure and platforms performed well in the first quarter of 2014, reaching a revenue of 1.9 billion U.S. dollars, up 38.5% year-on-year.

IDC divides the global integrated system market into two segments: Integrated Platforms and Intrgrated Infrastructure. Integrated platform refers to the integrated system pre-integrated software packages and system customization optimization, such as application development software, databases, testing and integration tools. Integrated infrastructure systems are general purpose systems that use the same infrastructure modules but are not optimized for specific workloads.

In the first quarter of 2014, the integrated platform market reached 769.6 million USD, an increase of 8.3% from the same period of previous year, accounting for 39.5% of the total integrated system market. Oracle won the largest integrated platform system vendor for $ 369 million and a 48% market share. IBM and HP followed.

In the quarter, integrated infrastructure grew significantly by 69.4% year-over-year to $ 1.2 billion in revenue, accounting for 60.5% of the market. Cisco and NetApp ranked No. 1 with Flexpod revenue of $ 268.4 million and a market share of 22.7%. Then VCE and EMC, breakdown second and third.