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Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2009
19 June 2009
 
George J. Weiss   Mike Chuba   John R. Phelps   Rakesh Kumar   David J. Cappuccio   Carl Claunch   Andrew Butler   Martin Reynolds   Bill Malik   Philip Dawson   Jeffrey Hewitt   Brian Gammage   Thomas J. Bittman   Donna Scott   Ronni J. Colville  

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




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

    
 What You Need to Know
    
 The Hype Cycle
    
 The Priority Matrix
    
 Off the Hype Cycle
    
 On the Rise

    
 Optical System Buses
    
 High-Density Racks (>100kW)
    
 Tera-architectures
    
 Data Center Container Solutions
    
 Heterogeneous Architectures
    
 Energy Management Software Tools
    
 Fabric-Based Computing
    
 Processor Emulation
    
 At the Peak

    
 x86 Servers With Eight Sockets (and Above)
    
 Sliding Into the Trough

    
 Virtual Machine Live Migration
    
 Linux on RISC
    
 Server Provisioning and Configuration Management
    
 High-Performance Computing Clusters: Windows
    
 Multicore Processors
    
 Offload Engines
    
 Server Virtual I/O
    
 Shared OS Virtualization (Nonmainframe)
    
 Blade Servers
    
 Capacity on Demand (Unix)
    
 Linux on 16 to 64 Processors
    
 Multithreaded Processors
    
 Virtual Machine: Hypervisor
    
 Climbing the Slope

    
 64-Bit Windows
    
 Linux Itanium Technologies
    
 Liquid Cooling
    
 Grid Computing
    
 Mission-Critical Workloads on Linux
    
 Capacity on Demand (Mainframe)
    
 Linux on System z
    
 Quad-Core Processors
    
 Entering the Plateau

    
 Mainframe Specialty Engines
    
 Dual-Core Processors
    
 Hardware Partitioning
    
 Appendixes

    
 Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

    
 Recommended Reading


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, 2009
 

Figure 2. 
 Priority Matrix for Server Technologies, 2009
 

Figure 3. 
 Hype Cycle for Server Technologies, 2007
 



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




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