High-end server market domestic manufacturers have a small gains

"It Times" reporter/Qinsi (from Beijing) in the domestic server market, the industry is accustomed to international manufacturers of disputes, and in fact, domestic brand server manufacturers did not stand idly by, they actively participate in it, add a bit lively unwilling to fight in the low-end market for a long time, domestic server manufacturers decided to attack the high-end market again. October 28, Wave group News, said its independent innovation of 4-way server sales breakthrough 10,000 units, with IBM, Hewlett-Packard two models to keep abreast of the domestic market to become the only three sales scale over million of 4 road products. Earlier, Lenovo and the Dawn has also launched new server products.　　For a time, domestic mainstream server manufacturers have a great collective to enter the high-end market trend. For the good performance of the wave products, Wave Group Vice President Wang Endong said, "The wave of hope through independent technology into the high-end market, change the past monopoly of foreign companies, high pricing patterns." "Wave Group is confident to enter the high-end server domain, but from the latest domestic server sales rankings, the performance of domestic brand server is still disappointing IBM 22.81% of the share of the crown, HP and Dell, respectively, 21.62%, 20.84% followed by the local brand wave,　　Lenovo is still home.　　Local manufacturers want to enter the high-end server areas of the goal has been a long time, their progress in recent years to see, but in the face of large markets are still firmly occupied by the international giants of the situation, local manufacturers want to move into high-end areas, still face greater challenges. High-end blank currently, in the domestic high-end server market, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sun and other international brands occupy more than 90% of the share, in an absolute monopoly position. Although local server manufacturers in the past two years to increase sales, but the field of inking more in the low-end areas.　　The blank of domestic server in the high-end market makes the information lifeline of our country become more and more dependent on the foreign minicomputer products, which causes the high cost of information and the increase of hidden danger. Han, deputy director of the Ministry of Industry and Technology, said to the IT times that the foreign technology export policies, domestic sensitive industries can not import high-end server products, the import of high-end server technology to protect the risk of interruption. It is reported that, for the defense, security and other sensitive applications, some Western countries for high-end server exports have strict restrictions, such as IBM and other high-end servers, its export license clearly stipulates that "system suppliers and the United States Department of Commerce to the use of the system for periodic inspection", and "　　Foreign high-end server systems have remote maintenance functions, can be remote operation system monitoring, information access and other operations, which for China's information security, is undoubtedly a "time bomb." Not only is the high-end technology stranded abroad, the local enterprises in the low-end market profit space is also becoming smaller. Since last year, the mainstream server market competition is increasingly fierce, international manufacturers in the consolidation of their own field, but also will look at the domestic low-end market, have launched a corresponding small and medium-sized enterprisesserver products, and a big hit price tactics.　　Last year, IBM launched the "Oriental series" server, its goal is set to the low-end market. In this respect, Wang Endong also Chen, in the high-end market without a place is difficult to gain advantage on this battlefield. This wave of broken million server products, is to enter the high-end market is an important strategic fulcrum. Wang Endong told our correspondent, "domestic server broke the meaning of breaking the foreign brand high-end monopoly for the next high-end breakthrough reserves technology and market base." "Local business Charybdis is affected by the economic crisis, corporate IT spending is tightening, and new server procurement needs are no longer strong."　　IDC data shows that in the first quarter of this year, China's server market overall downturn, sales increased only 1% Year-on-year, sales fell 24%,IDC expected the situation will not be improved until early 2010. Although the industry is pessimistic, but the domestic server market is not no bright spot.　　IDC believes that relative to the overall market downturn, the domestic 4-way server is showing a reverse growth situation, sales and sales growth of 39.7% and 36% Year-on-year, the market share from 7% to 9%. Analysis that the new server market is stable, one reason is that the domestic economic situation is improving. At present, the 4-way server is mainly used in tax, telecommunications, finance, education and other "country" enterprises together industry, the ability to fight financial crisis than other SMEs strong, their demand for new products is also relatively stable. A government official said, "This year, the country's 4 trillion investment in the promotion of the economy has a positive impact on information construction in key industries, but also stimulated the growth of the 4-way server market." "The wave of performance alone let foreign manufacturers surprised, but also how much let domestic manufacturers feel gratified." Not only in the market share of the increase in strength, wave group will focus on technology research and development. In August this year, the Wave group acquired the German dream of a research and development center in China (see the 184th issue of the government-sponsored wave Swallow dream Tatsu China Research and development Sun Pi want to do the domestic memory chip first article), through this way to further improve the tide research and development chain, in the chip design to smash down heavy hammer.　　In addition, they also plan to invest 1.6 billion yuan this year for research and development, the amount of growth 24%. Local brands not only have to face the squeeze from international manufacturers, but also to deal with domestic peer competition. In the domestic server brand, the wave and Lenovo's competition has been in a state of stalemate.　　2008, Lenovo relying on the accumulation of PC channel advantages, has become a departmental server-level leader in the field, the wave formed a greater pressure.　　To technology, service has made domestic server manufacturers executives pointed out that at present in China's commercial computing, finance, telecommunications and other important areas are monopolized by foreign products, local server manufacturers want to get rid of the current price mire, hovering in the middle and low-end market embarrassing situation, but also need to strengthen the investment in technology and services. "In China's server domain, the competition pattern of Chinese and foreign brands is ' pyramid ' shape", a long-term observation of the server industry insiderssaid that the high-end market foreign manufacturers have a relatively large advantage, the more high-end, domestic manufacturers share the smaller, conversely, to the low-end, domestic manufacturers share the greater. For high-end areas of the fight, Wang Endong and other domestic server industry executives also admit the difficulties, "to achieve sales growth is not difficult, and to achieve the core competitiveness, which is the biggest challenge for domestic manufacturers."　　Despite the wave of acquisitions in Xian's research and development center, and has the only domestic server-oriented and storage of the state Key laboratory, but to catch up with the footsteps of international manufacturers, the gap is still very large. Not only that, after the sale of products and services, domestic enterprises also inferior to international manufacturers. A local information technology company has worked with IBM for many years, and they have a deep feeling of cooperation.　　The company employees told The Economist, compared to domestic server manufacturers, IBM's biggest advantage is "to provide enterprises with all aspects of support and help, involving business, technology, management and many other aspects, IBM can lead the channel partners to continue to grow and progress", which is the lack of local manufacturers. "High-end products have their own characteristics, not mass production, its single platform value is very high, the application is very complex," Wang Endong said, this requires domestic manufacturers to carry out a variety of hardware and software cooperation. Since the first application of the Intel processor in the 2001 Wave server offerings, the wave of cooperation with international electronics vendors has not ended. This September, the tide was unwilling to sell hardware, and together with Intel, the momentum to the system and software to cover the animation production business process solutions.　　The move is seen by the industry as a wave group joining hands with Intel for further expansion in the Chinese market. Domestic server manufacturers are in the high-end areas of the full march and achievements, but can catch up with the pace of international manufacturers, the industry is not optimistic. "There is still a long way to go to the real rise of our high-end sector." "Han said.