Report Date: January 2011 Due to the focus on the market by IBM and HP - which has been sustained for several years - the blade server market is very skewed, with 70% of revenue achieved by these two vendors. Ciscos more recent entrance into the market stimulated and challenged the market during 2010. While considerably behind in volume, Ciscos entrance into the blade server market is causing confusion and unease among the installed base and channel of established blade market vendors. With so much investment in the concept, and with a strong CAGR that will erode the market for other server form factors, the blade server market offers a compelling opportunity for most server vendors - particularly those that focus on more-specialized geographic, verticalized or workload niches. The emerging market potential for private and public cloud server infrastructure also provides a natural opportunity for blade (and skinless) servers, as most cloud infrastructures are likely to be based on highly virtualized x86 platforms that are well-suited to rapid hardware provisioning.
Mentions: HP, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu, Cisco, Oracle, NEC, Bull, SGI, Hitachi
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