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Dataquest Insight: Small-and-Midsize-Business Server Market, Worldwide
17 July 2008
 
Kiyomi Yamada   James A. Browning  

The small-and-midsize-business server market increasingly has become more important for many server vendors. This document highlights key server revenue market data, server trends, and investment drivers and IT purchasing behaviors in the SMB market.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

    
 Industry Overview

    
 General Market Characteristics

    
 Complex Market
    
 Server Vendor Revenue by Organization Size

    
 The Impact

    
 Server Market Sales Drivers and Inhibitors

    
 Drivers

    
 Disaster Recovery
    
 Server Replacements and Upgrades
    
 Increased Server Capacity for New and Enhanced Applications
    
 Virtualization
    
 Inhibitors

    
 U.S. Economic Slowdown
    
 SaaS and Hosted Applications "in the Cloud"
    
 Server Consolidation and Virtualization
    
 PC as a Server

    
 Background and Context

    
 Market Statistics Data

    
 Windows Dominates SMB Market

    
 Conclusion

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 Core Server Demand by SMB IT Infrastructure and Skills
 

List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Worldwide: Server Vendor Revenue Share by Organization Size, 2007
 

Figure 2. 
 Worldwide: Server Vendor Revenue OS Share by Organization Size, 2007
 



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Computing Hardware Worldwide
Small and Medium Businesses Market Strategies




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