Worldwide and U.S. High-Availability Server 2007-2011 Forecast and Analysis

Publication Date	February 2008
Publisher	IDC
Product Type	Report
Pages	34
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	IDC03881

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Summary

This IDC study examines the demand for HA servers as a subset of the overall server market. Therefore, this is a derivative forecast, which should be viewed in context of the overall forecast for the worldwide server market from 2007 to 2011. Although clustering has been the predominant vehicle for improving server availability characteristics, the complexity that is often associated with these types of solutions in certain market segments has hampered more widespread acceptance,"said Steve Josselyn, research director in IDC's Enterprise Platforms Group."The ongoing improvement of standard server availability and customer acceptance of good-enough availability within some server workload segments have resulted in customers assessing the tradeoffs associated with cost and complexity over high availability. Any solution that can reduce the cost and complexity of implementing an HA solution will get the attention of customers."

"The increasing importance of virtualization within the scale-out server world (primarily volume servers priced less than $25,000) will strengthen the case for deploying HA software that can ensure the safe delivery of workloads from one virtual server to another,"said Jean S. Bozman, research vice president in IDC's Enterprise Platforms Group."Therefore, clustering, replication, and other HA computing techniques will prove to be key in supporting smooth operations in scale-out deployments of small volume servers for enterprise applications and workloads. Formerly, the software that ensured safe management of workloads was 'under the hood' of scalable SMP server systems; now, there will be increased attention on scale-out deployments that require layered software products to address the same operational requirements."

Content

IDC Opinion
In This Study
- Methodology
  - Forecast of Servers with HA Levels (Availability Levels 2, 3, and 4)
  - Turning the System Inside Out
  - Workload Balancing Not Included in This HA Forecast
Situation Overview
- Overview of IDC's Availability Spectrum
- Table: IDC's Availability Spectrum
  - IDC's Availability Spectrum
  - IDC's Availability Level Definitions
- High-Availability Competitive Landscape
  - New Options in the HA Server Marketplace
- Vendor Profiles
  - Systems Vendors
    - HP
    - IBM
    - NEC
    - Stratus Technologies
    - Sun Microsystems
    - Unisys
    - Other Systems Vendors
  - Independent Software Vendors
    - EMC and VMware
    - Microsoft
    - Oracle
    - Symantec (VERITAS)
  - Others/Open Source Offerings
Future Outlook
- Forecast and Assumptions
- Table: Worldwide AL2-AL4 High-Availability Server Revenue by Operating System, 2005-2011
- Table: U.S. AL2-AL4 High-Availability Server Revenue by Operating System, 2005-2011
- Table: Worldwide AL2-AL4 High-Availability Server Shipments by Operating System, 2005-2011
- Table: U.S. AL2-AL4 High-Availability Server Shipments by Operating System, 2005-2011
- Table: Worldwide Unix High-Availability Server Revenue by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: U.S. Unix High-Availability Server Revenue by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: Worldwide Unix High-Availability Shipments by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: U.S. Unix High-Availability Shipments by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: Worldwide Windows High-Availability Server Revenue by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: U.S. Windows High-Availability Server Revenue by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: Worldwide Windows High-Availability Shipments by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: U.S. Windows High-Availability Shipments by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: Worldwide Linux High-Availability Server Revenue by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: U.S. Linux High-Availability Server Revenue by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: Worldwide Linux High-Availability Shipments by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: U.S. Linux High-Availability Shipments by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: Worldwide Other High-Availability Server Revenue by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: U.S. Other High-Availability Server Revenue by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: Worldwide Other High-Availability Shipments by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: U.S. Other High-Availability Shipments by Availability Level, 2005-2011
- Table: Key Forecast Assumptions for the Worldwide and U.S. High-Availability Server Market, 2007-2011
- Market Context
- Table: Worldwide High-Availability Server Revenue by Availability Level, 2005-2011: Comparison of December 2006 and December 2007 Forecasts
- Figure: Worldwide AL2?AL4 High-Availability Server Revenue, 2005-2011: Comparison of December 2006 and December 2007 Forecasts
- Figure: Worldwide AL2?AL4 High-Availability Server Revenue Growth, 2006-2011: Comparison of December 2006 and December 2007 Forecasts
Essential Guidance
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