A particularly interesting article has been published by Clabby Analytics (http://www.clabbyanalytics.com/uploads/POWERXeonFinal.pdf) published January 2010 regarding the future of the primary processing technologies moving forward. The exective summary from Clabby Analytics paper summarises this superbly:
“IBM’s POWER architecture continues to perform admirably — and, over the past three years, has gained market share in the Unix marketplace against Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Sun.
A new version of POWER (POWER7) is expected in early 2010 — and this version promises to very significantly increase processing power while also offering visualization and virtualization improvements. Given the solid competitive position of this processor; its large installed base; and its advanced functionality (years ahead of x86 in virtualization, for instance) — POWER architecture can be expected to continue its dominance in the server market mid-range and high-end.
Intel is expected to release its Beckton multi-core processor in early 2010. This Xeon-class processor is expected to be the focal point for Intel’s 64-bit development efforts for the foreseeable future. Its 64-bit functionality and its reliability/avail-ability/security (RAS) features are expected to overlap with and marginalize Itanium. Sales of Itanium-based servers should, accordingly, decline significantly because the market has already shown a clear preference for x86 architecture — and because the x86 ecosystem is far richer than that of the Itanium ecosystem.
Mass migration away from Sun SPARC architecture is already taking place (both IBM and HP are reporting an increase in Sun migrations). We believe this is directly attributable to Sun customer concern about Oracle Corporation’s pending takeover of Sun — and we believe that it will be very difficult for Oracle recover these lost customers.”
I would recommend that this document is reviewed and absorbed to ensure any IT investments are in platforms that will be around in the future.
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