Gartner Magic Quadrant Blade Servers 2016

Andrew butler summary just as the blade server magic quadrant was rendered obsolete by the growth of multinode servers so hyperconverged systems now represent a new form of modular investment choice.

Gartner magic quadrant blade servers 2016. Gartner august 2015 vendor strengths and cautions cisco last year this magic quadrant assessed cisco on its collaboration with netapp and emc which both remain active today. The gartner magic quadrant for data center backup and recovery software positions dell as a leader based on its ability to execute and its completeness of vision. But cisco s partnering strategy has expanded since then to include many page 4 of 36 gartner inc. The gartner magic quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage positions dell as a leader based on its ability to execute and its completeness of vision.

Data center managers should use this magic quadrant to understand the modular server market and evaluate the related vendors and their offerings. I o leaders should use this research to help choose both the right form factor and the right vendor for new projects. As the blade and multinode server markets increasingly overlap creating a cannibalization effect for blades and driving market convergence a magic quadrant that tracks only the blade server market has become redundant. Magic quadrant figure 1.

Gartner retires the magic quadrant for modular servers published. 02 march 2017 id. Hp leads in gartner magic quadrant for modular servers may 2016. Gartner magic quadrant for blade servers summary the blade server market is becoming increasingly polarized with vendors deploying high end integrated systems to help increase margins and share of wallet while the lower end of the market is inundated by multinode server designs that address the market s appetite for extreme scale out workloads.

Storage and network components may also be housed within the same. The first blade server magic quadrant report from gartner released october 6 2009 places hp in the leaders quadrant of the magic quadrant for blade servers gartner is the world s leading information technology research and advisory company. Gartner defines the modular server market as a class of server where the compute capabilities are delivered in a modular style and housed in a common often proprietary chassis. Gartner glossary information technology glossary b blade servers blade servers blades are small form factor servers housed in a chassis that provide tightly integrated power cooling input output i o connectivity and management capabilities that enable the easy addition of new components and replacement of failed or outdated technology.

The market chiefly comprises blade and multinode servers. Modular servers form a compound market where the traditional market for blade servers and multinode servers overlap. In 2015 gartner will replace it with a new magic quadrant for modular servers.