Yankee Group report predicts growing demand for fault tolerant servers

Virtualization, infrastructure consolidation and telecommunications convergence will drive demand for fault tolerant solutions as continuous availability becomes IT managers' top concern, according to a Yankee Group report, ‘Server Virtualization Creates New Opportunities For Fault-Tolerant Servers.’

Fault-tolerant servers' 15 percent share of the $58 billion server market will increase steadily as companies virtualize and consolidate their server infrastructures to run more critical applications on more resource-efficient networks, according to the Yankee Group's report. The common thread through the trends driving fault-tolerant computing's growth, the report says, is the re-emergence of single points of failure in network architectures.

IT managers are simultaneously running more critical applications on networks while consolidating them to use now-dormant processing power; eliminate redundant servers; and increase server utilization from as little as 10 percent to as much as 80 percent. Fault-tolerant servers are an attractive option for IT managers because they minimize the risk of running four or five logical servers on one physical server.

•Date: 18th May 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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