We’ve been a bit lazy on the blogging front, a bunch of business travel, coupled with the demands of getting this particular survey out the door have pushed blogging down a couple of pegs on ‘gotta get this done now’ list.

This new survey has taken up quite a bit of bandwidth around here. We had 297 enterprise x86 server customers answer a whole bunch of questions including: they’re dealing with power/cooling/floor space issues, which vendor does the best job of quoting/pricing deals, what they’re doing about x86 virtualization, which chip vendor has captured their heart (Intel, AMD, neither?), along with all of the vendor vs. vendor ratings on technical (performance, availability, quality, etc.), customer support (service, promise keeping, advice, etc.), and other issues (road maps, R&D prowess, trustworthiness, etc.)

You can find the press release in our Press Room , and a brief summary paper that lays out results from the Vendor Face-Off section of the survey here.
This report is free, but you have to register to get it. We’ll be publishing other reports and more detailed studies of how the particular vendors fared in the coming weeks. Keep tuned to this page for announcements…if you’re interested in specifics, go to our contact page and drop us an email and we’ll see if we can help you out…