Gartner estimates the market for data center equipment at $ 99 billion

This year, for the first time after the crisis of 2008, the volume of the data center equipment market has increased to 98.9 billion US dollars. In any case, this is the data provided by the analytical agency Gartner. Last year, according to experts, the same indicator amounted to only 87.8 billion US dollars. The improvement was 12.7%, which is a very good indicator.

The same experts from Gartner believe that in 2012 the market size for data centers will increase up to 106 billion dollars. In 2015, the same figure should reach 126 billion dollars. Of course, this is if the current situation is not affected by the crisis, predicted by some financial analysts, and even without analysts, the next wave of recession is evident.
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The growth of the equipment market for data centers is now mainly in Russia, China, Brazil and India. In other countries, the market either stays the same or is gradually shrinking. The main factor of growth so far remain information storage systems, they account for about 50% of market growth, which is very much.

This year, mainly large and medium-sized data centers are “growing”, with at least 500 racks. virtualization. The Gartner report also states that the share of large data centers (about 2% of the total) accounts for 52% of the total area occupied by all data centers in the world. By 2015, this figure will be 2% to 60%.

Via telecompaper