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Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet Sit Consectetur Adipisicing Doloret HP 1 Issue 1 3 From the Gartner Files: Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet sit 17 About HP consecteturHP Blades Leadership adipisicing and doloret Innovation for the Data Center Featuring the Magic Quadrant for Blades Utilizing the best technology to solve your business needs is paramount to getting an edge on the competition, improving efficiency, and maximizing benefit from your IT budget. The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a trusted source of objective, independent intelligence on information technology. In Gartner’s recent blade server Magic “Due to their modular Quadrant, HP is positioned as a leader. nature, blades offer compelling facilities- Gartner Magic Quadrants are a culmination of oriented benefits, research in a specific market, giving you a wide- such as improved angle view of the relative positions of the market’s cabling, rapid hardware competitors. By applying a graphical treatment provisioning (including and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Gartner HP BladeSystem maximizes every hour, watt, and the ability to replace Magic Quadrant quickly helps you digest how well dollar in your systems—provisioning in minutes, failed components), technology providers are executing against their reducing equipment up to 95%, and slashing high computing stated vision. TCO up to 56%1. And our worldwide leadership density, energy- and consistent blade server innovation drives the efficient design and HP is positioned as a market leader for its “Ability change needed for IT to optimize business results. increasing management to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision”. We automation.” believe this solidifies HP’s leadership in blade HP is continually investing in breakthrough server technology, partnerships and solutions. advancements for integrated systems to provide superior user experiences. With our new HP HP’s server blades are the market leading ProLiant Gen8 server blades with ProActive Insight choice of IT professionals for good reasons: HP architecture, we are bringing to market intelligent BladeSystem is the foundation for building a servers built for the cloud era. These dramatic converged infrastructure; BladeSystem provides enhancements in productivity and automation resiliency, simplicity, and automation customers redefine the expectations and economics of the data need to simplify and integrate data centers; and center with the world’s most self-sufficient servers. HP ProLiant server blades deliver proven solutions from client to cloud. 1Based on internal calculations; Internal study HP BladeSystem Matrix TCO Analysis, 1/24/2011; HP BladeSystem and BladeSystem Matrix TCO Calculator Featuring research from 2 The Gartner research note in this newsletter provides findings, and analysis on blade server “We are seeing leadership in the worldwide server market. more adoption of blades in production With the intelligence of the HP ProActive Insight environments for architecture built-in to each server, ProLiant complex applications Gen8 servers and BladeSystem transform the — such as high-end experiences and economics of applications and database serving, data optimization, server operations, data center data warehousing, efficiency and IT support by automating every ERP and CRM — and aspect of the server lifecycle: extreme horizontal scaling workloads like • Industry’s most comprehensive breakthrough analytics.” management tools delivers 3x increased administrator productivity2 with HP Smart Update and HP Active Health “The emerging market We invite you to read the full Gartner report potential for private • Industry’s first cloud-based support portal, and learn more about HP BladeSystem at and public cloud server HP Insight Online for 40% faster problem www.hp.com/go/blades, or contact your local HP infrastructures also resolution time to get systems back into account manager to refine your data center! provides a natural production faster and increase total uptime opportunity for Sincerely, blade (and skinless) • Over 150 innovations3 to deliver industry servers, as most cloud leading uptime by reducing system downtime Chuck Smith 4 infrastructures are likely up to 86%, helping administrators complete Vice President, WW Blades, to be based on highly tasks simply, reliably and with confidence Cloud and Business Development virtualized x86 platforms Industry-standard Servers & Software HP is the one company that understands the broad that are well suited Hewlett-Packard Company to the need for easy infrastructure needs, trusted technology support, and frequent hardware and consulting services for businesses worldwide. provisioning.” Our consistent drive to meet these ever changing customer needs is the key to our long-standing market leadership. Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00225510 Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers, Andrew Butler, George J. Weiss, 05 Mar 2012 2Based on internal testing with a fully online firmware and system software update with HP SUM 5.0 vs. 4.2 3Design and feature changes documented by HP ProLiant mechanical design teams 4Average measured downtime of industry servers in 2010 vs. ProLiant Gen8 measured downtime goals 3 From the Gartner Files: Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers This Magic Quadrant for blade servers focuses on for added connectivity. Most blade chassis are a market that is becoming ever more complex and designed to fit within standard 19-inch racks, but diverse, due to the convergence of related modular some enterprise blade platforms are based on form factors, a fast-growing interest in fabric- other dimensions. Blades are not the only form of based infrastructure and the influence of cloud modular server; skinless servers are an even more computing on buying behavior. rack-dense form factor that has emerged in the past three years to address many extreme scale- Market Definition/Description out workload requirements that blades were first This document was revised on 20 March 2012. The designed to cover. We now see the emergence of document you are viewing is the corrected version. extreme low-energy servers (typically based on For more information, see the Corrections page on low-cost processors like ARM or Atom) that will gartner.com. extend the horizontal scaling still further, although usually based on some modular, tray-based form A blade server is a modular platform that fits factor. True skinless servers typically lack the together with other blades (not necessarily availability of the richer tooling that benefits blade servers), into a custom-designed chassis to create environments, so the two form factors address a fully functioning system. Multiple chassis may distinctly different workload needs. The complete then combine within a rack to create a larger history of blade servers is analyzed in Note 1. system, and multiple racks may be combined to create a large system that could consume a whole As the addressable market for blade servers aisle or container. In all cases, the blades become evolved toward more sophisticated and the individual building blocks. The chassis provides diverse workloads, a vacuum in the server power and cooling provisioning to all blades, plus market gradually formed, as blades became various common management functions. overengineered for their original market objectives. Skinless servers are an alternative form of modular Via the backplane, blades can also provide design developed to fill that vacuum. Skinless connectivity (and even aggregation) from server servers are designed with a reduced amount of to server, or from server to storage or the network, rack, chassis and, in some cases, motherboard but network and storage input/output (I/O) can components to maximize server density potential, be directly routed to the blades. Blade servers and reduce material use and power consumption. can have onboard storage, or can be completely Typical designs involve a lack of outside sheet diskless, with OS booting done from the storage metal coverings (hence, the term “skinless”), area network (SAN). Most blade chassis are compared with individual servers, as well as shared designed for blades to be vertically mounted, but power and cooling resources within the rack frame. this is not essential, and there are exceptions. Google’s server designs started the skinless server Blades can, in theory, have any number of trend, and the company’s innovations in this area processors from any processor type, although it is continue to influence introductions of skinless normal for blade servers to be lower-end devices, servers. with no more than four processors. Some blade vendors can combine two or more blades to At first glance, skinless servers share many become a larger, logical computer. common attributes with blades, which explains why some vendors regard the markets for blade It is common for blades with higher complements servers and skinless servers as synonymous. For of processors or storage to be wider, so that two example, skinless servers are designed to slide into or more chassis slots are consumed. Terminology, a common chassis, enabling the quick and easy like “bricks,” has been used for these wider form addition of new components, and the replacement factors. Blade chassis capacity can vary, and of failed components. They rely on common may be populated with blades of different types, components such as power supplies, cooling fans including additional memory, storage devices and I/O, which are functions of the chassis, not and network switches or other I/O modules the skinless server. They usually are based on a 4 standard x86 architecture, run a regular Windows • Tower/stand-alone servers shipped 12.5% in or Linux workload, and conform to the 19-inch- 2009, and had a total vendor revenue of 9.03%. rack-width standard. In 2010, 10.9% shipped, and total vendor revenue was 6.97%. In 2011, 11.2% shipped, The emergence of extreme-low-energy servers, and total vendor revenue was 6.59%. based on Atom or ARM processors, will open the door to new software stacks. As with blades, the Blades still represent only about 13% of the total mounting technology for skinless servers will server market in units and 21% in revenue, based be dictated by the server manufacturer, and is on the first three quarters of 2011.
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