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http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh030110-story01.html

A recovery of sorts is underway in the server market, according to the latest statistics from Gartner that dices and slices the server metrics for the final quarter of 2009. While by no means a full-blown recovery–something no one expects–in server spending, the market seemed to be a little bit stronger than expected, signifying that companies are willing to dedicate some funds to new iron to support new and existing workloads.

“The recovery that began in the third quarter of 2009 based on x86 servers extended into the fourth quarter,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, the research vice president at Gartner who does server box counting, in a statement put out with server sales and shipments by revenue, vendor, and type. And then Hewitt sprayed a little cold water on any excitement you might have for robust spending on servers, which is a leading indicator for overall IT spending as far as I can tell. “However, it is important to put this into context. The fourth quarter of 2008 was quite weak, so the fourth quarter of 2009 did not have to produce huge x86 server numbers to result in an increase. At the same time, other segments like RISC/Itanium Unix and mainframes remained constrained and that exerted downward pressure on overall vendor revenue results.”

I wonder how much of this investment is being driven through consolidation and integration projects, combined with the near end of life support for Windows 2000? For those organizations that need to consolidate to fewer data centers, it might be an ideal opportunity to consolidate and virtualize on to newer hardware simply to reduce the hardware support and energy costs. I wonder if Windows 2008 and x64 is having a dramatic affect on demand for servers, are there that many applications that benefit or are coded and optimized for an x64 operating system or environment?

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