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SMBs to drive the Indian server market
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 00:54 IST
Mumbai: Indian Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) are set to spur more than 20 percent growth in server spending � in spite of concerns of an overall server market slowdown in 2008, according to New York-based Access Markets International (AMI) Partners study.
In its study, AMI Partners said, "Increase in new distributed computing workload deployments will drive the rise in number of units shipped in the SMB segment. The predicted growth in this segment is healthy at 15 percent."
Partha Sarathi Sengupta, Manager (Strategic Market Analysis) at AMI Partners said, "Server technology is constantly evolving to keep up pace with ever-changing business requirements and expansion needs of the SMBs. There is hardly any possibility of spending growth rate to drop significantly in the coming year - as the industry is in the phase of rapid infrastructure upgrades."
SMBs and especially medium businesses (MBs) have definitely moved up in the value-chain and are now looking at a consolidated approach - where the server will be able to do multi-level complex tasks resulting in higher optimization of IT investments.
Sengupta opines, "Blade servers are making inroads into the traditional rack and tower servers. These new generation servers, which consume less power and occupy less space, are gradually aknowledged in the Indian SMB marketplace, as customers want to minimize their energy and operational costs while expanding their IT infrastructure."
However, there is a huge scope at the entry-level servers -- especially among SBs. Moreover, the AMI study reveals that over 35 percent of PC-owning Indian SBs in the 20-99-employee range are looking forward to their maiden server purchase this year. In construction and media or entertainment verticals will have a significant impact on server market growth rather than traditional vertical markets like BFSI, telecom and manufacturing.
