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Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2011
19 July 2011
 
George J. Weiss   Mike Chuba  

Appropriately selecting technologies in categories like server virtualization, next-generation server building blocks, high-performance computing, OSs and data center cooling will help organizations battle through the increasingly complex server selection process.




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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Analysis
    • What You Need to Know
    • The Hype Cycle
    • The Priority Matrix
    • On the Rise
      • Optical System Buses
      • Power Adaptive Algorithms
      • Tera-architectures
      • Fabric-Based Computing
      • Server-Hardware-Assisted Virtualization
      • Server Power Capping
      • High-Density Racks (>100 kW)
      • Instruction Set Virtualization
      • Servers Using Flash Memory for System Speedup
      • Alternative Servers Using Low-Power Processors
      • Heterogeneous Architectures
      • Virtual Machine Resilience
    • At the Peak
      • Fabric-Based Infrastructure
      • V2P Server Management
      • Processor Emulation
      • Server Digital Power Module Management
      • Cloud-Based Grid Computing
      • VM Energy Management Tools
      • Skinless Servers
      • HPC-Optimized Server Designs
      • Server Repurposing
    • Sliding Into the Trough
      • Graphics Card Application Acceleration
      • Data Center Container Solutions
      • Advanced Server Energy Monitoring Tools
      • Server Provisioning and Configuration Management
      • Linux on RISC
      • P2V Server Management
      • x86 Servers With Eight Sockets (and Above)
      • Cell Broadband Engine Application Acceleration
      • FPGA Application Acceleration
      • Server Virtual I/O
    • Climbing the Slope
      • Offload Engines
      • Shared OS Virtualization (Nonmainframe)
      • Capacity on Demand (Unix)
      • Blade Servers
      • Linux on Four- to 16-Socket Servers
      • Multicore Processors
      • Virtual Machine: Hypervisor
      • Liquid Cooling
      • High-Performance Computing Clusters: Windows
      • Capacity on Demand (Mainframe)
      • Mission-Critical Workloads on Linux
      • Linux on System z
    • Entering the Plateau
      • 64-Bit Windows Server
      • Grid Computing Without Using Public Cloud Computers
      • Mainframe Specialty Engines
    • Appendixes
      • Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels
  • Recommended Reading
Tables
Table 1.
Hype Cycle Phases
Table 2.
Benefit Ratings
Table 3.
Maturity Levels
Figures
Figure 1.
Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2011
Figure 2.
Priority Matrix for Server Technologies, 2011
Figure 3.
Hype Cycle for Servers, 2010




Document History:
 
Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2011
19 July 2011
  
Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2010
13 July 2010
  
Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2009
19 June 2009
  
Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2007
26 July 2007
  




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