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Article from ADMIN 07/2012

By ADMIN Magazine

Cloud Server Market to Double from 2010 to 2012

According to market research from IHS iSuppli, cloud servers will enjoy robust prospects in 2012 and become the fastest growing segment of the server industry within three years.

Shipments of cloud servers are projected to reach 875,000 units in 2012, up 35 percent from 647,000 in 2011 and nearly double the 460,000 units in 2010, according to a recent IHS iSuppli report.

The report states that high growth rates ranging from 23 to 30 percent are anticipated for each of the next three years until 2015, by which time cloud server shipments will have hit approximately 1.8 million units. Cloud servers also will make up an increasing portion of total server shipments – growing from slightly more than 5 percent of the market in 2010 to more than 15 percent in 2015.

According to the report, performance is not the key metric for servers used in cloud data centers; what counts instead is expandability, energy efficiency, and low cost. And, because physical footprint is valuable in a data center, rack-optimized servers and highly condensed blade servers will find the greatest adoption. You can read the complete report at: http://www.isuppli.com/Home-and-Consumer-Electronics/News/Pages/Cloud-Server-Market-Set-to-Double-from-2010-to-2012.aspx.

JSTOR Archive Moves Toward Open Access

JSTOR's Register & Read Beta is an experimental program to offer free, read-online access to scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account.

According to the website, the JSTOR archive offers "high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching." It includes more than 1,000 academic journals

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