Server and Database 2016 Brand Leader Survey

Mini-Report

Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report

This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the

independent, non-sponsored surveys covering six categories of brand

leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support

and Innovation–for thirteen classes of servers and databases.

Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please

contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.

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Table of Contents Server and Database Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report, 2016

Brand Leader Survey Methodology Page 4

2016 Server and Database Brand Leader Chart Page 5

List of Selected IT Professional Respondents Page 6

Respondent Title/Job Description Page 8

Respondent Data Center Environment Page 9

2016 Dense Low Power Microserver Market Leader Bar Chart Page 11

2016 Enterprise Blade Server Market Leader Bar Chart Page 12

2016 Enterprise Rackmount Server Market Leader Bar Chart Page 13

2016 White Box Server Market Leader Bar Chart Page 14

2016 Enterprise Server LOM and MLOM Market Leader Bar Chart Page 15

2016 Enterprise Server Processor Market Leader Bar Chart Page 16

2016 Server Virtualization Market Leader Bar Chart Page 17

2016 Enterprise Cluster OS Market Leader Bar Chart Page 18

2016 Enterprise Server OS Market Leader Bar Chart Page 19

2016 Integrated System Market Leader Bar Chart Page 20

2016 In-Memory Database Market Leader Bar Chart Page 21

2016 NoSQL Database Market Leader Bar Chart Page 22

2016 SQL Database Market Leader Bar Chart Page 23

2016 Storage Bonus Question #1 Page 25

2016 Storage Bonus Question #2 Page 26

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Servers and Databases Brand Leader Survey Methodology

• Brand Leader Reports are designed to measure the pulse of brand leadership in specific product categories using independent, non-sponsored surveys with at least 200 respondents.

• The server and database surveys were conducted in February, 2016. – Respondents were solicited from over 1,000,000 members of 100+ online IT groups, and from the IT Brand

Pulse IT professional database. – Two hundred and six IT Pros completed this survey. – Responses were collected using an online survey engine.

• In each part, respondents were provided with a product category description, list of vendor choices

(plus an “Other” answer choice to add a vendor, if applicable), and were asked six questions:

1. Who do you perceive as the <product category> market leader?

2. Who do you perceive as the <product category> price leader?

3. Who do you perceive as the <product category> performance leader?

4. Who do you perceive as the <product category> reliability leader?

5. Who do you perceive as the <product category> service & support leader?

6. Who do you perceive as the <product category> innovation leader?

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Server & Database 2016 Brand Leaders Voted by IT Pros

Dense Low Power Microservers HPE Moonshot HPE Moonshot HPE Moonshot HPE Moonshot HPE Moonshot HPE Moonshot

Enterprise Blade Servers HPE Dell HPE HPE Dell Dell

Enterprise Rackmount Servers Dell Dell Dell Dell Dell Dell

Whitebox Servers Dell Dell Dell Dell Dell Dell

Enterprise Server LOM Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel

Enterprise Server Processors Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon

Server Virtualization VMware VMware VMware VMware VMware VMware

Enterprise Cluster OS Microsoft Red Hat Red Hat Red Hat Microsoft Microsoft

Enterprise Server OS Microsoft

Windows Server Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux

Microsoft Windows Server

Red Hat Linux

Integrated Systems Cisco Dell Cisco Cisco IBM Cisco

In-Memory Database Oracle Microsoft Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle

NoSQL Database Amazon Web

Services Amazon Web

Services Amazon Web

Services Microsoft Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

SQL Database Oracle Microsoft Oracle Oracle Microsoft Oracle

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Selected Organizations Represented

DAIWA Capital Markets

Daybreak Game (Sony Online)

Delta Airlines

Department of Transportation

Detroit Medical Center

Duke Clinical Research Institute

Emerson

Ernst & Young

ExxonMobil

Fed. Home Loan Bank - Atlanta

FedEx

Fifth Third Bank

Ford Motor Company

GACS

General Motors

HSSBC

Intuitive Surgical, Inc

ITG

J.P. Morgan-Chase

Kaspersky Lab

L.A. Co. Dept. of Health Services

20th Century Fox

American Airlines

Apple Inc.

Assurant

AT&T

BAAQMD

Bank of America

Baylor College of Med

Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr

Bhabha Atomic Rsrch (BARC)

BioTek Instruments

Boston Dynamics

British Columbia Lottery

CA Legislative Counsel

Chapman Univ-Dodge Film

Chubb

CINECA

City of Los Angeles

Columbia University Med Center

Cox Enterprise

Daimler AG

MassIT (State of MA)

McAfee

Milliman

Mimeo

MIT

Morgan Stanley

Nat'l Geospatial-Intellig. (NGA)

Nat'l Institute of Health (NIH)

NASA

Nationwide Insurance

NYC MTA

Oppenheimer & Co.

Optum (United Health Group)

Pacific Northwest Nat‘l Lab

Premera Blue Cross

Regus

REI

Russell Investments

Seneca Gaming Corp (SGC)

Siemens

Social Security Administration

Sony Pictures

Southwest Gas Corporation

Southern Company Services

The Gates Corporation

Thomson Reuters

SunEdison

Temco Services

US Securities & Exch. Comm.

UBS

UCLA

UN Fed. Credit Union (UNFCU)

Universal Parks and Resorts

University Of IL at Chicago

University of Notre Dame

University of Pittsburgh Med. Ctr

U.S. Dept. of Navy

USC Marshall School of Business

USRG

Verizon

Vonage

Walmart

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Respondent Profiles

Respondent Title/Job Description:

VAR / OEM

Other

Executive/Management

Data Center Manager

Server Administrator/Architect

Network Administrator/Architect

Storage Administrator/Architect

IT Manager/Director

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Your environment is best described as:

Product Development

Other

Public Cloud/Data Center Provider

Small-medium business data center

High performance computing data

center

Enterprise data center

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Market Leaders

Market Leader Enterprise Blade Servers

HPE Cisco Dell IBM Fujitsu Huawei Lenovo NEC Oracle SuperMicro

Other

Who do you perceive as

the market leader for

Enterprise Blade Servers?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Dense Low Power Microservers

HPE Moonshot Super Micro Quanta Other

Who do you perceive as the

market leader for Dense Low

Power Microservers?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Enterprise Rackmount Servers

Dell HPE Cisco IBM NEC Oracle Huawei Supermicro Other Lenovo Fujitsu

Who do you perceive as the

market leader for Enterprise

Rackmount Servers?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader White Box Servers

Dell HPE Supermicro Quanta Hon Hai/Foxconn

Inventec Pegatron IronSystems

DeltaGroup

Wistron/Wiwynn

Other

Who do you perceive

as the market leader

for White Box Servers?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Enterprise Server LOM and MLOM

Intel QLogic Broadcom/Avago Mellanox Other

Who do you perceive as the

market leader for Enterprise

Server LOM and Modular LOM?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Enterprise Server Processors

Intel Xeon IBM Power AMD Opteron AppliedMicro

X-Gene

Cavium ThunderX Other

Who do you perceive as the

market leader for Enterprise

Server Processors?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Server Virtualization

VMware Citrix Microsoft Oracle Red Hat Other

Who do you perceive as

the market leader

for Server Virtualization?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Enterprise Cluster OS

Microsoft Red Hat IBM Oracle Other SUSE

Who do you perceive as the

market leader for Enterprise

Cluster Operating Systems?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Enterprise Server OS

Microsoft

Windows Server

Red Hat Linux IBM-AIX HP-UX Oracle Solaris Other SUSE Linux

Who do you perceive as the

market leader for Enterprise

Server Operating Systems?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader Integrated Systems

Who do you perceive as

the market leader

for Integrated Systems?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader In-Memory Databases

Who do you perceive as

the market leader

for In-Memory Databases?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader NoSQL Databases

Who do you perceive as

the market leader

for NoSQL Databases?

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

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Market Leader SQL Databases

February 2016 Brand Leader Survey

Who do you perceive as

the market leader

for SQL Databases?

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Bonus Questions

IT Pros were asked, “In the next 12 months, Fibre Channel storage as a percent of overall storage in my organization's data centers will”:

Other

Decrease

We do not use Fibre

Channel SANs

Stay the same

Increase

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IT Pros were asked, “My organization is at this stage of deploying server-based object, file or block enterprise storage in our own data center”:

Other

We are testing server-based object,file or block enterprise storage

We have no plans to evaluate ordeploy server-based storage

We are investigating server-basedobject, file or block enterprise storage

We have deployed server-basedobject, file or block enterprise storage

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