The impact of virtualization technology on the server market

At present, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13883.html "> Virtualization technology has become a well-deserved hotspot in the server market, the server manufacturers have invested a great deal of enthusiasm, With IBM and HP as the representative of the server vendors stand in the first camp, and other server vendors are not to be outdone. Server virtualization is the integration of a variety of applications to a small number of enterprise-level servers, effectively reducing server numbers, simplifying server management, while significantly improving server utilization, network flexibility and reliability. Related data show that through integration and virtualization, improve server utilization, hundreds of servers can even be reduced to dozens of units.

The adoption of virtualization technology is bound to reduce the number of application servers, then, virtualization technology in the end to the overall server market impact?

For high-end markets, when enterprise users deploy new virtualization technologies, servers need more performance and more functionality to meet the need to run more applications on fewer servers, so there will inevitably be a need to buy expensive high-performance devices that drive the market for high-end servers, Bring new opportunities for server vendors.

In the low-end market, because the use of virtualization technology investment is very large, the original server virtualization technology transformation costs are not low, small and medium-sized enterprises bear the ability to have a certain problem. Although the savings from virtualization technology will soon be able to achieve return on investment, the cost problem remains an important hurdle to overcome. As a result, virtualization technology will not soon become popular with small and medium users, but to the low-end server market to leave the room for continued growth.

In addition, there are a large number of enterprise users, who use virtualization technology more to improve productivity, rather than cost savings. In this case, the procurement of IT products, such as servers, will not only be reduced, but also due to the adoption of new technologies to generate more procurement requirements. At the same time, the application of virtualization technology will increase the average price level of the x86 server, thus increasing the overall sales of the server market with the decrease of the server physical quantity.

More importantly, when virtualization technology becomes the trend of IT technology development, to better meet the needs of users, server manufacturers must find their place in this new technology trend, by providing users with higher value server products, to gain more market share.