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Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2005
14 July 2005
 
Stephen Prentice   Thomas J. Bittman   Ian Brown   Carl Claunch   John Enck   John R. Phelps   Rakesh Kumar   Donna Scott   George J. Weiss   Philip Dawson   Andrew Butler  

This Hype Cycle has revised and expanded categories for server virtualization, to reflect the growing range of technologies in this area. Server virtualization will be crucial to progress toward real-time infrastructure.




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Table of Contents


1.0
    
 The Hype Cycle

2.0
    
 On the Rise

2.1
    
 Aggregated Virtualization
2.2
    
 Complex Mission-Critical Workloads on Linux

3.0
    
 At the Peak

3.1
    
 Multicore Processors
3.2
    
 Virtual Machine — Hypervisor

4.0
    
 Sliding Into the Trough

4.1
    
 Blade Servers
4.2
    
 Xeon 64-bit Extensions
4.3
    
 Opteron (AMD64)
4.4
    
 Grid Computing
4.5
    
 Server Policy Management
4.6
    
 Server Provisioning and Configuration Management
4.7
    
 Multithreading
4.8
    
 Shared OS Virtualization
4.9
    
 Virtual Machine — OS-Based
4.10
    
 Dual-Core Processors

5.0
    
 Climbing the Slope

5.1
    
 x86 16-to-32-Processor SMP/NUMA
5.2
    
 Capacity on Demand (Unix)
5.3
    
 Itanium Processor Family
5.4
    
 Hardware Partitioning
5.5
    
 Capacity on Demand (Mainframe and Proprietary)
5.6
    
 HPC Cluster Computing

6.0
    
 Entering the Plateau

6.1
    
 32-Processor+ SMP/NUMA (Unix/RISC)
6.2
    
 High Availability/Failover
6.3
    
 Horizontal Scaling

7.0
    
 Appendix A: Previous Iteration of the Hype Cycle

8.0
    
 Appendix B: Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 Hype Cycle Phases
 

Table 2.  
 Benefit Ratings
 

Table 3.  
 Maturity Levels
 

List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2005
 

Figure 2. 
 Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2004
 



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