VM-Aware » HP http://www.vm-aware.com Server, Storage & Application Virtualisation! Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:28:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= en hourly 1 IBM Hardware Revenue Soars! http://www.vm-aware.com/2008/07/ibm-hardware-revenue-soars/ http://www.vm-aware.com/2008/07/ibm-hardware-revenue-soars/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:19:37 +0000 Paul Shannon http://www.vm-aware.com/?p=140 A number of customers have mentioned over the years that surely IBM & HP must be worried about virtualisation impinging on overall hardware sales. I always said that the kinds of servers that people buy for virtualisation are usually significantly more expensive than the customers would previously have purchased. This means that the volume might be lower, but the overall spend has a tendency to be as high if not higher.

This seems to have been the case for IBM at least as they have managed to get back to the top of the server hardware sales tree in the second quarter. With revenues topping $3.9B according to Gartner which means they overtake HP with total sales at $3.8B. The interesting bit to me is how IBM can sell less than half (302,000) that of HP (680,000) and still make more money.

I read about this story over at the Avastu Blog of Tarry Singh. I particularly like this blog for its informative and insightful post.

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The IBM machine comes out on top with 27% better performance per watt and 8% more performance
from the vConsolidate tool.

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HP went to great pains to promote this product and were giving away free t-shirts with “What is Shorty?” on the back. They also tried to whip people into a frenzy by having a placquard with “be at our stand at 12:15 for the biggest announcement at VMworld”.

Don’t get me wrong, I think ‘desktop’ baldecenters are cool, but not so cool when another company already has one. IBM announced their product in June , with a view of getting it to market right now.

I will be getting hold of full specs for the Shorty blade system and will post them when I do.

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