Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2006

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5 July 2006

Paul McGuckin Thomas J. Bittman Ian Brown Carl Claunch John Enck John R. Phelps Rakesh Kumar Andrew Butler George J. Weiss Martin Reynolds Jeffrey Hewitt

This Hype Cycle highlights the emerging technologies of server virtualization, next-generation server building blocks, increasingly dense processors and data center cooling technologies.

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Table of Contents

1.0

What You Need to Know

2.0

The Hype Cycle

3.0

The Priority Matrix

4.0

On the Rise

4.1		Tera-architectures
4.2		Heterogeneous Architectures
4.3		Power and Cooling Management
4.4		Offload Engines
4.5		Aggregated Virtualization
4.6		Fabric Computing Architecture
4.7		Virtual Machine Relocation
4.8		Blade Server Virtual I/O

5.0

At the Peak

5.1		Liquid Cooling
5.2		Complex Mission-Critical Workloads on Linux
5.3		x64 Windows
5.4		Virtual Machine — Hypervisor
5.5		Quad- and Multicore Processors

6.0

Sliding Into the Trough

6.1		Grid Computing
6.2		Provisioning of OS Images
6.3		Blade Servers
6.4		Shared OS Virtualization (Nonmainframe)
6.5		Utility Computing
6.6		Linux/Windows Itanium
6.7		Multithreaded Processors
6.8		Virtual Machine — OS-Based

7.0

Climbing the Slope

7.1		Capacity on Demand (Unix)
7.2		Dual-Core Processors
7.3		Unix Itanium
7.4		x86 16- to 32-Processor SMP/NUMA
7.5		Capacity on Demand (Mainframe)
7.6		Hardware Partitioning
7.7		High-Performance Computing Clusters

8.0

Entering the Plateau

8.1

Horizontal Scaling

9.0

Appendices

9.1		Previous Iteration of the Hype Cycle
9.2		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, 2006

	Figure 2.	Priority Matrix for Server Technologies, 2006

	Figure 3.	For Reference: Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2005

High-End Server Hardware
Midrange Server Hardware
Entry-Level Server Hardware
Operating Systems Software
Emerging Technologies
Virtualization

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