Public cloud and virtualization will result in a new shuffle of the server market

Spring to winter, it is a new year. Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/33721.html ">2014 year, it market will usher in a year of rapid development." For the server market, also faces many challenges and opportunities. The development of public cloud and virtualization technologies will likely lead to significant changes in the server market.

In addition to public cloud and virtualization, the impact on the server market is the rise of white-card servers, especially in Taiwan. The failure of Chinese cloud computing companies to take over traditional U.S. server vendors and high-density servers and micro-servers has had a huge impact on the entire server market.

The US public cloud company is very active at the moment, but its performance still fluctuates considerably. The overall server market is expected to grow, but this growth will be very slow.

Compared with 2013, virtualization technology will affect more people to migrate their business to private cloud and public cloud, which does affect people's buying behavior. Cloud server sales will grow slightly in 2014, but overall, servers sold to corporate users will fall.

2014, the server shipments may only be 2%-4% growth, the slow growth of the original is virtualization. Virtualization technology is being used to extract more value from data centers. Server growth comes mainly from high-density server suitability and micro server markets.

About 14% of servers migrated to the cloud in 2013. In 2014, more than 20% of servers are expected to migrate to cloud computing. This will reduce the server sales by reducing the customers who buy the servers separately.

Enterprise-class servers will be a small part of the entire server market, and more and more blades and high-density servers will take over the market.

Today, we have seen IT managers hesitate to choose whether to buy a server or to put their business into the cloud.

The development of the cloud computing market will continue to be driven by cloud providers such as Dell, IBM, HP and Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Although many companies are turning to low-power servers, the industry does not yet have a 64-bit architecture for ARM servers. Several such products are expected to be put into the market in 2014. However, as a pioneer of the ARM processor, Calxeda's closing seems to be a bad omen for arm grabbing the market.

In the coming years, server unit shipments will continue to rise due to the purchase of new, cheaper micro-servers.

The new micro server is focused on a wide range of data center applications and cloud computing platforms. As a result, the leading chipmaker is currently struggling with arm. In 2014 years, however, the two firms are likely to compete head-on. Although arm was placed in the Monkey King, never underestimate Intel's competitiveness in the enterprise-class market.

In the next few years, the traditional server market will be greatly challenged, white box server generated will penetrate the server market, and gain more market share. The traditional three-strong (IBM, HP, Dell) will be challenged by more vendors.