Worldwide and U.S. Enterprise Server 2008 Vendor Shares: Shipments and Installed BaseIDCJuly 5, 2009 22 Pages - SKU: IDC2382557 |
This IDC study is a data-intensive document that shows annual server shipments and installed base as of January 1, 2009. All major vendors worldwide are shown, with data broken out into the worldwide and U.S. markets. The installed base has grown from 5.6 million units in 1996 to 32.6 million units in 2008. Most of these new servers cost less than $6,000. By analyzing the data, the reader should be able to answer the following questions:
"A vendor must be able to analyze retirement rates recognizing that a system costing less than $25,000 is going to be replaced in three to five years, while a large-scale enterprise server may be in the field for over 10 years as it is redeployed from a mission-critical workload to a less demanding second-tier workload," said Lloyd Cohen, research director, Enterprise Server Technologies. |
