2014 Domestic server hardware Manufacturers challenge foreign three strong

Blink of an eye, 2013 has become the past, looking back 2013 years, looking forward to 3721.html ">2014 years, what trends have or will happen to the server hardware field?" We'll take stock of them:

Infrastructure to open integration

Cloud computing set off another wave of infrastructure construction, in this wave, open architecture will undoubtedly become the user's first choice, the reality is also very clear, 2013 x86 server market continues to expand, and this corresponds to the UNIX minicomputer market continues to decline.

As a more high-end technology, Unix minicomputer is also considered to be a more expensive, not universal system, in the cloud computing era advocated by the open source, common, low-cost, flexible deployment trend, UNIX minicomputer has been facing from the X86 server, even the arm system threat.

It is also in order to restore the declining situation, we see that the IBM power system in 2013 set up the OpenPOWER Alliance, and will be fully liberalized in the future licensing of all power chip technology, it is clear that the hope by learning from arm to build a huge ecological circle, Makes the power architecture glow again.

In addition, cloud computing data center construction will require more computing, storage, network, security, system software, such as the overall integration of infrastructure, in this large environmental background, the future of the IT infrastructure will be more flexible, open, more general direction of development, The IT infrastructure, represented by an open fusion, is also better able to meet the basic requirements of the cloud era.

Software Definition Data Center hot

2013, it is an extremely important year for hardware supplier to exert software field. With the homogenization of hardware more and more serious, now simply improve the hardware performance has been difficult to meet user demand for services, software and applications for users to choose products play an increasingly important role.

In the IT industry, but also set off a software definition data center of the upsurge, simply, the software defined data center is the data center of all resources, including servers, storage, network, security and other virtualization, through software-driven management, according to user needs to provide delivery of IT services. And wherever physical resources are available, it services can be provided on demand.

It is worth emphasizing that the software definition data center is still in its infancy and that there is still a long way to go, but this does not affect the user and vendor's focus on the software definition Data center, and it can be seen that the major processors and server vendors in the 2013 have increased their investment in the software sector, On the one hand, through the software and applications to enhance their own hardware products, on the other hand, is the integration of soft and hard integration program to lay a solid foundation.

Domestic hardware Manufacturers challenge foreign three strong

As the global server market gradually saturated, server demand gradually weakened, the overall server pattern is not too optimistic, but the Asia-Pacific region is the current server market is a few bright spots, revenue and shipments are basically maintained growth trend, and the Asia-Pacific region's core driving force is naturally the Chinese market.

In the Chinese server market, IBM, HP, Dell three international giants have been a very large market share, but in 2013, domestic manufacturers also gradually began to overtake international manufacturers, to the wave, Huawei as the representative of the domestic manufacturers share a substantial increase, effectively pulling the domestic market share of the camp to promote.

In addition to these two manufacturers, Lenovo, Shuguang, Pao and other domestic server manufacturers sales are showing an upward trend, but also further strengthen the user's confidence in domestic manufacturers, it is worth emphasizing that the overall technical strength of domestic server manufacturers still have some gaps with foreign countries.

But as domestic manufacturers began to increase efforts in the field of independent innovation technology research and development, users of the system economy and controllability of the demand more attention, the domestic system is undoubtedly a huge potential, at the same time, in addition to the field of HPC and Internet, localization system can further into the financial, securities, Government departments and industries should focus on.

New trends in the 2014

Looking back at the 2013, looking forward to 2014, ARM's access to the micro-server market brought a new look, in 2013, the micro-server domain can be said to be one of Intel's solo, and the attention of the ARM micro-server processor has not been able to meet, and in 2014, The 64-bit ARM processor will be truly available, and its performance will be unveiled, and Intel will face a positive challenge.

In key applications, the POWER8 and Intel Xeon E7 V2 processors will be officially released, will the x86 architecture be further on mission critical, or will there be a POWER8 counterattack?

After 2013 years of market development, domestic manufacturers and foreign manufacturers of the gap will be further narrowed, 2014, domestic server manufacturers will have a round of concentrated outbreak is worth our expectations.