IDC Polls Server Investment

LONDON -- After a long period of infrastructure consolidation and focus on getting value from existing systems, organizations are now looking at where investment in new systems can bring benefits to their business. IDC's workload research, which looks at the types of applications deployed by customers on their new server systems, indicates that:

Commenting on these results, Chris Ingle, group consultant for IDC's Systems Group, said, "With the downturn in spending there have been fluctuations over the past three years in the use of servers, and these fluctuations have been more severe than in previous periods. As this study shows, we are starting to see customers go beyond infrastructure renewal and examine where new investment can bring competitive advantage to their business. Traditionally we have not seen major shifts in the types of applications run on each operating system or chip architecture; rightly, buyers have been cautious about extending the capabilities of each platform. However, with improvements in each platform we may expect to see more radical changes in the use of servers."

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