The joy and sorrow of domestic servers

According to Gartner's 51643 Global server market report released in, Huawei ranked first in shipments of domestic servers in the first quarter, reaching servers, the first three in the Chinese market.

According to the server market data released by Gartner in second quarter of 2013, inspur server shipments reached 65 thousand, ranking fifth in the global market and second in the Chinese server market. In the second quarter, for the first time, inspur, sugon, and other Chinese server manufacturers have more than 50% shares in the Chinese server market, forcing IBM, HP, and Dell server giants.

After more than 20 years of hard work, Chinese server manufacturers have finally been very proud. in the statistics of international market analysis companies, they have finally gotten rid of the embarrassment of being "others" for a long time.

Domestic server manufacturers should be happy. After all, more and more domestic server manufacturers are stepping into the top five orders of shipments, which indicates that the overall strength of domestic server manufacturers has been significantly enhanced. The rise of Chinese server manufacturers this year may be due to the following reasons: the rise of cloud computing and big data has provided a rare opportunity for Chinese server manufacturers, in particular, some Internet enterprises often purchase tens of thousands of x86 servers, which is enough to make the Chinese manufacturer famous overnight; some large or even super-large data centers have been launched in the national regulation, driving procurement of x86 servers. For example, some high-performance computing centers have 20 thousands or 30 thousands machines in a large order, the advantages of domestic servers in terms of price/performance ratio are undoubtedly revealed at this moment. From a broader market background, the trend of U2VL has become more obvious in recent years, that is, the migration trend from the Unix server platform to the x86 server virtualization + Linux Platform is gradually increasing. For example, China Unicom has clearly stated that in the future, new systems will adopt the x86 server platform, some old Unix platforms must also be migrated to the x86 platform.

On the one hand, years of technical and market accumulation by Chinese server manufacturers have reached a critical point today, and the trend of cloud computing and U2VL has accelerated this explosion. On the other hand, the swaying policies of large international server manufacturers also directly affect product sales. With the combination of these two factors, Chinese server manufacturers have been given the opportunity to make a big difference.

However, after the excitement, we should also note that the shipment volume of domestic server manufacturers in the past quarter has soared unexpectedly, most of the reason is that a large number of servers with tens of thousands of servers have such bright eyes, and such pie falling in the sky will not always be there. For domestic server manufacturers, the results are certainly worthy of recognition. However, only stable performance that can be guaranteed for a few quarters or even years can we truly explain the improvement of our own strength.

The global server market is in a transitional period. In a favorable aspect, manufacturers that can provide more cost-effective products stand out. In a negative aspect, market competition will be further intensified, if we rely only on one or two industries to win the world, it may be difficult to ensure the sustainable development of enterprises.

Lenovo's acquisition of the IBMx86 server product line remains unresolved, which may be a fuse for the next wave of server market changes. IBM's intention to give up low-value low-end x86 servers is already evident, and 4-way and higher-end x86 servers will become a focus of future market competition. Fortunately, domestic server manufacturers such as Huawei and inspur have seen this trend and increased investment in high-end server products.

In the future, there will still be many variables in the server market. For example, how can we choose between HP's x86 server and Unix server? Can Dell further consolidate its leading position using this changed gap, how can domestic server manufacturers replace foreign servers in a wider range and in more industries, as well as challenges posed by new technologies and new products such as software-defined servers and low-power consumption servers. For domestic server manufacturers, it is the right way to seize the opportunity to expand themselves and achieve sustainable development.

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