Analysis: x86 server market in 2009 more difficult - the server-IT industry

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I DC That Financial Crisis will continue in the coming period of time on x86 Server A profound impact on the market, then the economic downturn of 2009, x86 server market, what will happen change?





Zhou Zhengang According to the Chinese server market, IDC tracking quarterly report shows that the year 2008, China's x86 server market overall shipments reached 712,618 units, up 11.3%; but by the second half of the global financial crisis and server vendors intensified price competition among, x86 server market Sell Compared with 2007, but the amount has shrunk by 1.2% to 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, which is also China's x86 server market since the Internet bubble burst in 2001, the first time since the year negative growth.
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Affect China's x86 server market in 2008 due mainly from two aspects: first, the Olympic economy will bring a wave of high growth has been with the successful staging of the Olympic Games end, and close up during the Olympic Games, a series of limited-line measures also makes the end user to reduce the purchase of x86 servers; Second, with the turmoil in the United States and the European economy and the financial crisis spread to the Asia-Pacific region, China's economy has also been some impact, which makes the second half of 2008 4th quarter, in particular, x86 server shipments declined substantially.





IDC believes that the financial crisis will continue for some time in the future on the x86 server market have a profound impact. SME customers has been of such low-end enterprise x86 server hardware is one important group of consumers, the financial crisis on these small and medium enterprises particularly affected. Therefore, the projected 2009 global x86 server market will face more serious than the situation in 2008, the market continued the trend of negative growth is difficult to avoid. However, China still will be one of the world's most strong in the market, will not be Europe and the United States and other Asia-Pacific region a significant double-digit decline year on year. In addition, with our range of stimulating the introduction of economic policy is expected to x86 server market bottomed out in 2010, restored 2011 double-digit growth momentum.





Two is still the mainstream product markets performed well in four


Present, two-way x86 server market server is still the mainstream products in shipments accounted for more than 70% share, and in the next few years remains a dominant position. Continued downturn in the economy in 2009, all the way x86 server market share may be increased: This is because part of SME financial crisis IT Declining budgets, can only choose cheaper products; the other processor manufacturers make low-end server technology updates performance has improved, you can take some of the existing workload in the end product.





The same time, four and four or more x86 servers show higher than the market average growth, primarily driven by the growing maturity of virtualization technology. By the economic crisis, some large enterprises have begun in the data center through the use of hardware virtualization technology to reduce procurement costs. These companies will increase more than four or four-x86 server purchases, and then through virtualization technology, a more than four or four-way x86 server virtualization into multiple virtual servers, rather than the original purchase, as number of x86 servers in the low-end.





Blade growth above the market average


Blade servers have been known for the user step by step. While the blade server shipments in 2008, the statistics are still only about 6% market share, but remained more than 50% of the staggering growth rate. The next two years, is expected to maintain the blade server shipments to double every two years, the speed to 2010, nearly 30% market share.





On the blade server market optimism for the following reasons: high-density server deployment is the trend of future development, it has begun to be accepted by the majority of users, blade server, thus gradually in large data centers, high-performance computing and Network Widely used areas of the game. In 2008, telecom operators to upgrade 3G network on a large number of blade server blade server to buy more is to promote the development of the industry to more opportunity, so gradually into the blade server industry's generic products.





In addition, blade servers restrict the development of several major bottlenecks also were removed. For example, the original high-density blade server deployment on Power supply And cooling requirements, for many of the domestic room built in a few years ago is difficult to resolve conflicts. The construction of a large number of data centers in recent years are mostly in the energy aspects of the forward-looking design, and many of the old engine room began to introduce advanced data center design concepts to transform the existing power supply system, it became blade server environment can be deployed.





Prices stabilized The last two years, China x86 server market, price competition remarkable. Compared with the previous year, the average unit price in 2008 x86 server dropped by more than 10% of the history of China's server market, prices fell the most in one year. Prices is the mainstream server vendors caused by the competitive strategy, market share leader in several international companies have to price in 2008 for the competition means to expand market share, then the increase of sales to control overall costs, ensuring margin Bu Zhiyu down too much. This strategy also forced other server makers have to adjust its pricing system to adapt to market competition. This led to the 2008 profit margin of all x86 server vendors have different degrees of decline.





However, with the continuing financial crisis in depth, most of the x86 server vendor in 2009, also to protect the important indicators for assessing profit. Therefore, the x86 server market in 2009 is unlikely to cut prices again a wave of large-scale. In addition, Intel and A MD And other processor manufacturers this year to upgrade the processor x86 server x86 servers will drive replacement, but also makes the x86 server vendors of parts procurement costs have increased, and this is 2009 x86 server market, prices will tend to stability of one of the reasons it might even cause a small upward trend.





Channels to the value-added transformation





X86 server market in the domestic channels are also important changes have taken place. Overall, the channel transition to value-added trend continues, the channel more than ever to bear the service work. At the same time, the x86 server