The Server Landscape Is Changing 22 July 2003 Back To Hardware Platforms Focus Area

	In this Spotlight, we take a strategic look at the server market and how it is likely to change during the next five years. Commodity-based hardware technologies will play a major and defining role in future server architectures. Budget-constrained enterprises are looking for means to cut costs — not just incrementally, but dramatically. We look at a potential architectural and server management renaissance that could create dramatic cost savings — or chaos — in next-generation deployments.   Read more		Mike Chuba Vice President and Research Director, Gartner Research.

			The Future of the Server: A Five-Year Outlook 22 July 2003 George J. Weiss  Mike Chuba  The next five years will bring significant changes in how we view server platforms. Changes will affect the marketplace from low-end servers through the high-end mainframe.

	The Architectural Race Becomes a Marathon 9 July 2003 John Enck  George J. Weiss  John R. Phelps  The decades-old architectural race between monolithic and distributed server technology continues, with both technologies undergoing important evolutionary changes in the 21st century.		The Future of Itanium: Strengths and Challenges 11 July 2003 John Enck  Jeffrey Hewitt  Itanium continues to make good progress in the market, but it has a long way to go to make a dent in reduced instruction set computer and IA-32 server market shares.
	Linux in the Enterprise: Now the Real Effort Begins 18 July 2003 George J. Weiss  The first two phases of enterprise Linux growth, early adoption and deployment advantages, were developmental in nature. The third phase is more complicated: business commercialization of the process.		The Future of Server Virtualization 17 July 2003 Thomas J. Bittman  New server virtualization technologies are maturing, and this will significantly improve server flexibility and management costs. The server market may also change radically.
	The Future of Blade Servers: Steps Toward Success 9 July 2003 John Enck  Jane Wright  Jeffrey Hewitt  Blade servers have vast potential in the future world of servers. However, blade server vendors must take bold steps to move blade technology from niche to mainstream.		Grid Technology Is Influencing the Future of Large Servers 10 June 2003 Carl Claunch  Grid technology is an alternative to symmetric multiprocessing, nonuniform memory access, massively parallel processors and cluster designs to achieve very high system performance.
	The Mainframe Continues to Evolve 18 July 2003 John R. Phelps  Although pronounced dead many times, the mainframe will continue to survive through evolution and continued vendor investment.		Windows Server 2003 Is Ready When You Are 17 July 2003 Thomas J. Bittman  Windows Server 2003 appears stable, and enterprises should plan to introduce it into their environments as hardware needs to be refreshed. Windows NT Server users should plan to migrate to the new product by year-end 2004.
	Sizzles and Fizzles in the Server Forecast 15 July 2003 Jeffrey Hewitt  Karen Benson  Intel Architecture 64-bit-based-server revenue will grow at more than 90 percent per year through 2008, surpassing $7 billion worldwide.