Server System Industry Development Key Trends & Major Players' Strategies

Cloud computing has been concentrating computing power in the server-end, thereby bolstering growth momentum in the server-related industries; should the contingency arise to the market value of cloud servers and data centers, it is expected that computing-related demand for products and services just as multi-core CPU, storage and network, along with demand for memory and storage IC applications, will be stimulated by cloud computing as then. With an increasing global focus on virtualization and energy saving, the development of server products has a tendency towards the direction of integration.

In the face of rapid changes in the Taiwanese server system industry, virtualization and cloud computing are two challenges for the industry to upgrade to the at once level. In order to stand out in the fiercely competitive environment and to tap new business opportunities, branded server vendors and/or server manufacturers would have to improve chip performance and abilities to bring hardware and software at the same time while providing more value-added solutions, just as pre-configured bundles of servers, storage, software and services, which consist of everything consumers need.

Observing branded server vendors' development trends, product planning and strategies, key successful factors can be identified to help server manufacturers develop their own-brand businesses, during getting an insight into branded server vendors' product strategies to help them develop new service models.