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Analysts at Synergy Research Group recently reported that some of the biggest names in enterprise infrastructure made modest gains last year despite the largely mature market. Synergy charted an average growth of 2 percent across all tracked segments in the market: data center servers, Ethernet switches, voice systems, WLAN, unified communications, routers, and telepresence.
"The overall 2 percent growth shown in this research is actually a step up from the previous year, when spending was essentially flat," John Dinsdale, chief analyst and managing director at Synergy, wrote in an email.
Big enterprise server vendors like HP Enterprise and Dell are imperiled by the rise of the original design manufacturer (ODM) or "whitebox" market. But Dinsdale believes HP, in particular, has qualities that will allow it to hold its own against commodification.
"HP Enterprise has been around a long time, has a broad and deep product range, and has a good reputation," wrote Dinsdale. "Servers are very important to HP Enterprise's future and it acts accordingly. There has for sure been strong growth in ODM-produced servers, but this has tended to impact the service provider side of the market much more so than the enterprise side. It is mainly the big cloud service providers that are buying large volumes of ODM servers."
HP, Dell, Cisco maintain their dominance in enterprise hardware | InfoWorld
"The overall 2 percent growth shown in this research is actually a step up from the previous year, when spending was essentially flat," John Dinsdale, chief analyst and managing director at Synergy, wrote in an email.
Big enterprise server vendors like HP Enterprise and Dell are imperiled by the rise of the original design manufacturer (ODM) or "whitebox" market. But Dinsdale believes HP, in particular, has qualities that will allow it to hold its own against commodification.
"HP Enterprise has been around a long time, has a broad and deep product range, and has a good reputation," wrote Dinsdale. "Servers are very important to HP Enterprise's future and it acts accordingly. There has for sure been strong growth in ODM-produced servers, but this has tended to impact the service provider side of the market much more so than the enterprise side. It is mainly the big cloud service providers that are buying large volumes of ODM servers."
HP, Dell, Cisco maintain their dominance in enterprise hardware | InfoWorld
