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Source: IDC, “New Economic Model for the Datacenter”
Billions of Dollars
– WW
Server Management Spend
Total Server
Related Spend
Year
Physical Servers
Virtual Servers
2003
$ 64
$ 3
$ 135
2007
$74
$ 28
$ 191
2013
$50
$105
$250
31%
- 32%
275%
- $24
+ $ 77
+ $ 58
WW Server Related Spend (CapEx + OpEx) - Servers, Power & Cooling, and Mgmt./Administration
Data Center Spending
•
Server purchase
spending is flat
•
Physical server
management is down
•
Virtual server
management
costs are way up
costs are way up