Abstract
This IDC study (which is a translation of the Japan report IDC #J7110108)
analyzes the competitive climate of the vendors and shipment trends in the
Japan blade server market until the first half of 2007 (January to June). It
also discusses the competitive edges of the leading vendors.
The results of the analysis of the Japan blade server market based on IDC
Leadership Grid shows that there are huge differences in the ability to gain
share among the top five vendors. "Vendors that have made blade servers their
strategic products should implement strategies that accelerate the change to
blade servers among corporate users that make use of the vendors'
rack-optimized servers or non-rack-optimized servers, in order to protect their
installation-based servers from other competitors. On top of that, IDC thinks
it is necessary that vendors develop strategies that can increase the number of
new users of blade servers," observes Satoshi Fukutomi, Research Manager,
Servers, IDC Japan.
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