IT executives will embrace core new data center technologies in the next few years
Virtualization.
Companies that don’t use server virtualization technologies will spend 25% more annually for hardware, software, labor and space for Intel servers and 15% more for RISC servers by 2008, Gartner says.
Blades.
41,000 blades were sold in the second quarter of 2003, accounting for just 3% of the overall server market, The Yankee Group says. By 2007, more than 2 million blades will be purchased, accounting for more than a quarter of all servers sold, Yankee says.
Consolidation.
Worldwide customer revenue for server consolidation will grow from $5.2 billion in 2003 to $8.5 billion in 2006, with the bulk of consolidation happening with Unix servers, IDC says.
