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The global IT industry continued to be plagued by the economic turmoil in the first half of 2009 and the server industry was no exception. Although having seen market volume and vale declines in the first half, the server market has begun to show signs of slow recovery due to the launch of x86 server processors and product features of slim design, energy saving, and low price tags.

Driven by issues including virtualization, green IT, and cloud computing, it is projected that the trend of integration will play an even more important role in the development of the global server market in the second half. This report analyzes the development trends of the global server market in the second half of 2009 and beyond, profiling the current status of new server products and technologies.

Check out this article talking about server sales. It’s one of those benchmarks people often use to identify the health of the IT market and for revenues of the main vendors in terms of market share  and servers sold. Server sales might not be as fast as they were in specific markets, however I wonder if in the next 6 months or so if this wont change for several reasons:

• Mergers/acquistions and de-mergers – all those companies  and banks that have been split up or re-organized will need their own infrastructure
• Small and medium businesses seeking to extend the possibilities of their IT – they don’t have the process/non technical barriers to entry that an enterprise does
• Energy efficiency and costs – it’s just not economic long term to keep running your servers over decades (particularly in the x86 market)
• Growth of the service/cloud based market – Compute or virtualization on demand
• Vendors themselves looking at the services market for revenue – so we can’t sell you a server, how about some process, best practice or data center transformation services, even out sourcing services?
• Virtualization and consolidation – more sessions or virtual machines per physical asset, the concept that I can buy more cheaper servers or fewer higher spec servers for a virtualization infrastructure project than simply continuing to buy per application, per project physical servers.

I’m off to check out the report.

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