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Consolidation efforts slow server sales

“”We have started to see unit shipment in the x86 market tempered a little bit,” Scaramella said. Unit shipments of x86-based servers grew by 8.8 percent in the third quarter, down from 9.8 percent in the second quarter and 11 percent in the first.

Virtualisation is the process of enhancing server utilisation by running multiple applications on the same physical server. Without it, some servers only operate at 15 percent to 20 percent of capacity.

Companies are also buying new servers with dual-core or quad-core processors that offer more computing power than older models with single-core processors. Thus, customers can enhance their data centres’ capability with fewer servers, Scaramella says.”

A very interesting article just discussing the sales of servers, how with the dual core/quad core offerings where you might have needed to buy for example 2 blades for improved capacity in your grid one blade will, do or for example with vmware, we’ve found DL585′s to be very good at vmware, with this in mind, I can get away with fewer higher spec servers, say a 580g2 can handle 12 virtual sessions, the dual core/quad core equivalent might be able to handle 14/16 this means in effect 20% less physical ESX servers.

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