Comments on: Server sales impact from of cloud/virtualization? http://www.bladewatch.com/2009/07/20/server-sales/ Tracking servers and enterprise technology. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:11:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lukeshutler http://www.bladewatch.com/2009/07/20/server-sales/#comment-44662 lukeshutler Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:43:37 +0000 http://www.bladewatch.com/?p=6601#comment-44662 So, are cloud/virtualization solutions/projects affecting server sales? Well, I’d say you’re absolutely right to bring in the economic argument. While the server market can be challenging this year, the root cause is in the economic downturn rather more than any threat from the uptake of interest in cloud computing or virtualisation solutions. So, I wonder whether this is a question we should be asking ourselves at all? <br> <br>Leaving the server sales argument to one side, virtualisation and cloud computing could well create a market where ‘apps teams buy servers’ to a market where ‘apps teams buy services’ but simply put, cloud computing and virtualisation are evolutions of data centres and both are business delivery models that require a mix of software, services and hardware – a trio that will always be complimentary and co-exist in any infrastructure, virtual or otherwise.<br><br>We at IBM have been focusing our efforts around creating a hardware, software and services stack that brings together the strengths of the web-centric cloud computing model and today’s enterprise data center, providing dynamic allocation of computing resources for a mix of workloads on a massively scalable, secure, heterogeneous and virtualized infrastructure So, are cloud/virtualization solutions/projects affecting server sales? Well, I’d say you’re absolutely right to bring in the economic argument. While the server market can be challenging this year, the root cause is in the economic downturn rather more than any threat from the uptake of interest in cloud computing or virtualisation solutions. So, I wonder whether this is a question we should be asking ourselves at all?

Leaving the server sales argument to one side, virtualisation and cloud computing could well create a market where ‘apps teams buy servers’ to a market where ‘apps teams buy services’ but simply put, cloud computing and virtualisation are evolutions of data centres and both are business delivery models that require a mix of software, services and hardware – a trio that will always be complimentary and co-exist in any infrastructure, virtual or otherwise.

We at IBM have been focusing our efforts around creating a hardware, software and services stack that brings together the strengths of the web-centric cloud computing model and today’s enterprise data center, providing dynamic allocation of computing resources for a mix of workloads on a massively scalable, secure, heterogeneous and virtualized infrastructure

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