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Low-End Server Rentals are Making a Comeback
While virtualization has run rampant in the enterprise, low-end servers stand to fare well despite concerns posed by "the cloud" in a rebounding economy. Global Industry Analysts, recently announced that low-end servers are expected to reach 17.4 million units by 2017, driven by increasing Web usage among consumers and businesses, in addition to an increase in eBusiness activity. According to the research group, this activity has lead to a greater demand for investments in IT infrastructure, which includes servers. In a press release, GIA wrote, “Emergence of large-scale data centers has emerged into a key factor driving growth of the overall server industry. Internet sector workloads require scale out environment, wherein many servers are used to achieve high performance.” The group asserts that the effective management of these servers is a great determinant of industry competitiveness in the enterprise. Thus, companies are seeking out scalable, efficient and cost effective servers. That’s where we come in. Server technology is a serious investment that will affect a company’s entire IT infrastructure and pose as a serious financial investment – even for low end models. Rental services, like those offered by Vernon Computer Source, allow companies to try server models from the industry’s top manufacturers, before making the final commitment of a purchase. Vernon’s extensive offering includes those low-end x86 servers, which, according to GIA, are being looked to as replacements for expensive high-end servers due to clustering and grid solutions. SMBs will be fueling this push for the low-end server market, specially those with high processing capabilities at an affordable price. SMBs will look to these models to serve as business intelligence tools, said GIA, in the place of high-end desktops to extract information from ERP systems. The “major players” in this marketplace, according to GIA are:
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