Gartner Magic Quadrant Rack Servers 2016

Gartner magic quadrant for blade servers summary the blade server market is becoming increasingly polarized with vendors deploying high end integrated systems to help increase margins and share of wallet while the lower end of the market is inundated by multinode server designs that address the market s appetite for extreme scale out workloads.

Gartner magic quadrant rack servers 2016.

Gartner defines the modular server market as a class of server where the compute capabilities are delivered in a modular style and housed in a common often proprietary chassis. Gartner magic quadrant for modular servers summary any server that is hosted by a dedicated chassis or enclosure is termed a modular server by gartner. Storage and network components may also be housed. 02 march 2017 id.

20 october 2014 id. Weiss andrew butler summary as the blade and multinode server markets increasingly overlap creating a cannibalization effect for blades and driving market convergence a magic quadrant that tracks only the blade server market has become redundant. Gartner retires the magic quadrant for modular servers published. Hp leads in gartner magic quadrant for modular servers may 2016 june 22 2016 servers.

The market chiefly comprises blade and multinode servers. As part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. Gartner magic quadrant for integrated systems andrew butler philip dawson julia palmer george j. Andrew butler summary just as the blade server magic quadrant was rendered obsolete by the growth of multinode servers so hyperconverged systems now represent a new form of modular investment choice.

I o leaders should use this research to help choose both the right form factor and the right vendor for new projects. Weiss kiyomi yamada october 10 2016. Shenzhen china may 26 2016 huawei today announced that its servers have been moved up from the niche players quadrant to the challengers quadrant by gartner the world s leading it technology research and advisory company according to newest release of gartner s magic quadrant.