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IT Buying More x86 Servers, Paying Less: IDC

Sales of x86 servers are taking off like a shot, RISC is shriveling up, and prices are still dropping as IT buyers snap up less-expensive servers.

Worldwide Server Hardware Shipments Up 23 Percent: Gartner

After a year of free-falling, server hardware sales are finally starting to rebound. While the numbers are good now, the industry is coming off a drop in sales in previous quarters. Which parts of the server industry are headed in the right direction?

x86 Servers Lead Nascent Global Server Sales Resurgence

After a year of spiraling toward the ground, server sales may be pulling out of the dive, with x86 servers leading the pack. Revenue continued to fall, yet it's still progress.

TPC Benchmarks Now Measure Server Power Use

The benchmarking standards group has added per-watt rating to how it measures server transactions.

2010: The Year of Virtualizing Securely

Virtually Speaking: Two sets of survey results released this week point to security as the next major hurdle for virtualization.

IDC Sees Server Business Helped by Intel, AMD

New chips from the two competitors have given customers a reason to start buying again.

Server Market No Longer Circling the Drain

While year-over-year continues to look grim, quarter-to-quarter shows signs of improvement.

The New Windows vs. Linux Debate

Virtually Speaking: With the OS and hypervisor converging, the phrase 'heterogeneous data center' may soon have new meaning.

Server Sales Plummet by a Quarter in First Quarter

Along with the rest of tech, server vendors took a pounding.

Server Sales Fall 14 Percent in Q4

The latest report from IDC shows Unix servers with more staying power than low-end x86 servers as the global economic crisis hits the once-thriving server business.

More Than 1 Million New Sites for Apache

According to the latest survey from Netcraft, during the month of January, Apache HTTP open source web server gained 1.27 million sites while Microsoft's IIS lost 2 million.

Survey Shows Continued Growth for Web in 3Q08

Despite penetration levels remaining flat, Apache and Microsoft continue to dominate the Web server market. The Web continues its growth trajectory, however, with new Web server options in the driver's seat.

The Power of Perception

OS Roundup: How rational are the choices we make about the operating systems we run?

IDC: Q2 Server Sales Have Their Price

Servers, especially those with x86 architectures, are getting cheaper, which means enterprises can afford to buy more.

Gartner Reports Healthy Q2 for Server Market

Dell and IBM renewed their server efforts, while Sun struggled and HP hummed along.

Virtually Speaking: IBM Goes High on Linux

IBM's research shows virtualization adoption is helping to bring Linux to the high-end.

Netcraft Survey Shows Continued Growth for 2Q08

Once again, the Web continues to grow, and Apache and Microsoft continue to dominate, even as new Web server options snuff out more-venerable options.

'Cheap' Storage Still Costly

Worldwide enterprise storage costs are predicted to spike to more than $2 billion by 2009, according to IDC. Part of the reason: storage infrastructure.

IDC Reports First-Quarter Server Sales Remain Brisk

Despite widespread predictions that virtualization and a souring economy would dent the server market, growing revenue suggests otherwise.

Despite Challenges, Server Market Sees First-Quarter Growth

Even with virtualization on the rise and an economic slowdown, the need for server capacity continues its unabated growth.

Virtualization Spending Continues to Rise

Is virtualization recession-proof?

Enterprise Unix Roundup: And the Most Reliable OS of All Is ...

A new survey from the Yankee Group reveals some telling information about the reliability of Linux, Unix, and Windows servers. Hint: Redmond isn't going to be happy.

March 2008 Security Space Survey Results

Security Space's Web Server Survey breaks out Web server software usage on the Internet for 86 domains. Data for the March survey was gathered from responses received from 28.1 million Web sites. Once again, about 44 percent of these sites are .com domains.

First Quarter Netcraft Survey Shows Continued Growth

Is it any surprise that the Web continues to grow? Apache and Microsoft continue to dominate, but will new Web server options coexist with or threaten these venerable favorites?

Server Sales Grow in 2007

From quarter-over-quarter to year-over-year, server shipments and revenue grew in 2007. Zoom in closer and a more ragged landscape appears: While more x86 boxes shipped, fewer RISC systems left the factory. Economic uncertainty and the full impact of virtualization have also not yet entered the picture.

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