Market Research

How is the UNIX market doing, and what are its prospects in the years to come?

2009 was highly challenging for the worldwide server space. Worldwide server shipments declined 16.6 percent in 2009 compared with 2008, while 2009 server revenue declined 18.3 percent versus 2008.

UNIX continues to struggle while areas of the x86 landscape experience an uptick

How much energy are servers really consuming and how are things going to change in the coming years?

Are people buying less due to the economy, and if so, what are they buying, what are they avoiding?

This report looks at how vendors are tying Solid State Drives into more and more servers and storage devices.

With Oracle going public with its plans for Sun servers, the other server vendors have begun to respond. IBM is first out of the gate with some new servers.

IDC delves into the server market, including a forecast for the next four years.

This IDC study presents the server installed base from 2003 to 2013 broken down into U.S. and worldwide market segments. In addition, data is provided by size class, operating system, and chip architecture. This is paid research from IDC.

Hot on the heels of a day of rumors, VMware announced the acquisition of Zimbra, the open-source email platform vendor previously purchased (and up until now, still owned by) Yahoo!. It's a somewhat puzzling acquisition.

Mainframes have been dead for years, of course. Yet this paid research from IDC studies continuinng usage patterns for IBM System z mainframes, as well as how users intend to use them inthe future.

Security appliances have gained traction over the past couple of years. But IDC now believes that virtual security appliances will dominate the market.

Aberdeen Group takes a look at the subject of disk encryption -- is it better to encrypt everything or just specific files?

This detailed survey of hundreds of data centers worldwide includes valuable findings about trends such as greening, consolidation, mainframe usage and facilities management.