A first quad-core server industry want to go beyond domestic manufacturers

 A first quad-core server industry want to go beyond
domestic manufacturers before, with the AMD and Intel quad-core Barcelona quad-core Tigertown new release, indicating that four nuclear war, while an official war, the industry entered into multi-core to quad-core based era. The first cut is the quad-core server industry. so quad-core can widely used in the server industry, will determine the future quad-core can really proliferate.
as early as November last year, Intel's quad-core debut since server vendors have already begun to roll out quad-core server products. just because when Intel introduced the dual quad-core, server vendors also introduced dual quad-core servers. such was the wave of domestic server makers to simultaneously launch the world's first quad-core server products NF380D. Then, in April 2007, the tide in the IDF and Intel jointly announced the world's first quad-core virtualization performance test report, based on the wave of NF380D the overall efficiency of quad-core servers to dual-core server 1.91 times .8, SPEC announced the completion by the tide, the world's first quad-core platforms based on Intel SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark test results, results for the 1538JOPS (the number of transactions per second), not only set a record of the test the best two-way servers, but beyond a certain brand of international minicomputer. on the other server vendors in the country is still competing in the dual-core server market, when the wave of the domestic leader in server vendors have begun to join hands to promote the Intel quad-core applications, the process of industrialization.
in After the wave of domestic server manufacturer Lenovo, Pao, also have launched a quad-core platforms based on Intel's quad-core server, and foreign manufacturers of IBM, HP, Dell and Sun, also joined the race in the quad-core server. quad server market began to horizon.
a time when the September of this year, AMD quad-core release, and more server makers to quad-core camp. dawn clear that performance will be in their future fleet used in AMD's quad-core Barcelona, at the same time, the mainstream server vendors abroad IBM, HP, Dell, Sun, etc. in the original Intel quad-core server also said to be based on the AMD quad-core Barcelona launch with the server. From this quad-core server, the time has come.
is well known, both Intel and AMD have emphasized four core + multi-core virtualization is the future application of industry best in the server mode. And, according to a survey conducted by Forrester Research, IT spending accounts for operations Enterprise IT's total budget 80% m90%. only energy consumption as an example, Google engineer Luiz Andr Barroso after careful calculation of the result is that energy costs have accounted for 40% of hardware cost. In addition, the scale of expansion brought with electricity, heat and other hardware issues, and various software problems, making the system stability suffered increasingly severe challenges, a consulting firm for the customer TCO study shows that enterprises, especially SMEs in the cost of downtime up to TCO of server system 16.7%. To this end, four quad-core + implementation of virtualization is undoubtedly the also allows users, in particular, its difficult for Chinese users across the application threshold.
fact, for the user in terms, virtualization is not a new application of new technologies, and now most customers do not understand virtualization, as a new technology to treat, trust is not enough to virtualization. As the value of server vendors is to integrate industry resources to provide customers with highly available, easily managed virtualization solution, through the free trial, technical support and training to help users across the Yingyong threshold, to make it more quickly adapt to the new application model.
this end, Intel recently invested $ 218,500,000 acquisition of a stake in software company VMware is its emphasis on virtualization best proof of this. As for the server vendors, who can virtualization to conduct extensive cooperation with industry and applications will no doubt be in the future competition in the server industry, living in a favorable position. wave of domestic server makers once again walk in the forefront of other server vendors. When Intel releases new quad-core Tigertown time the first wave of expansion in the domestic and XenSource, SWsoft virtualization software vendors such as strategic cooperation, which makes the wave of quad-core can provide easier deployment of the virtualization market, manageability and cost of better solutions that help customers across the threshold of virtualization to help users to achieve high-performance multi-core applications.
support in addition to server vendors, the Intel dual-core in order to account for the absolute mainstream quad-core market share of the rapid increase, the use of a high-end quad-core products and dual-core pricing policy overlap, This pricing strategy at the Intel processors, the server vendors to quad-core server and dual-core server, pull the spread is very small. the world's top three brands IBM, HP and Dell as an example, Dell PowerEdge 2950 quad-core and dual-core configuration price Like, HP Proliant DL380 G5 dual-core and quad-core configuration only 6% of the price difference, IBM X3650 spread of 8%. In this pricing strategy, the user will naturally select quad-core server.
and as a domestic server companies, and Intel has taken the wave synchronization TTM, the first listing, and high-volume supply market, first cover market strategy, while the rapid completion of full line of server products to switch to quad-core platform. In view of earlier, the tide has been achieved in the four core areas more than the first, such as publishing the world's first quad-core server, the world's first quad-core platforms based on virtualization test, quad-core server SPECjAppServer2004 test world record and so on. coupled with the wave of quad-core strategy around the , the industry believes that the wave of domestic server companies represented in the four core strengths to further enhance the market leader.
waves recently with the simultaneous release of Intel's new quad-core and quad-core server virtualization solution whether it is domestic server makers beyond start?
even more concerns of the industry, in the recently released Intel's new quad-core Tigertown the same time, the wave of synchronized release of two new quad-core servers are based on a grasp of the needs of domestic customers, independent definition of design. and released at the same time innovative technology, launched its own product, and application level integration of industrial action initiated by the system, which is the first time in the domestic server makers.
this mark after many years of accumulated experience and technical resources to integrate with the upstream vendors matures, particularly technical cooperation from Intel PSR blood transfusion, as represented by the wave of domestic server makers have been satisfied with the international vendors to follow, and begin to try to transcend it? Let us wait and see!