Beaverton, OR – November 19, 2007 – As server vendors increasingly pitch the ‘green’ attributes of their systems, customers are listening and evaluating the competing claims. In a recent survey by Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG), customers rated Hewlett Packard and IBM ahead of competitors in terms of how well their systems utilized energy and data center floor space.

GCG’s semiannual x86 Server Vendor Preference Survey poses a comprehensive battery of questions to hands-on IT customers that shed light on their perceptions about vendor offerings and services. These data center managers, architects, and administrators also address particular issues such as virtualization, purchasing plans, and IT trends.

Highlights from the ‘x86 Vendor Power/ Cooling/ Floorspace Report Card’ section of the survey: 

• 23% of survey respondents rated HP x86 systems most energy efficient, with IBM at 20%, Sun Microsystems at 19%, and Dell garnering 17% of the vote.
• IBM and HP tied at 22% for most thermal efficient systems. Sun and Dell trailed at 16% and 11% respectively.
• HP also notched a win in best utilization of server room floor space with 25% of the vote. IBM grabbed second place with 19%, Sun third at 16%, and Dell fourth at 12%.
• IBM took top honors in power monitoring and management, data center design and advisory services, and was rated as the vendor best able to improve facilities utilization in future products.

Beaverton, OR – November 19, 2007 – Recent industry focus on the need to ‘go green’ isn’t just hype; a solid majority of x86 data center personnel are highly concerned about energy consumption, cooling capacity, and floor space, according to a survey conducted by Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG). 

GCG’s semiannual x86 Server Vendor Preference Survey poses a comprehensive battery of questions to hands-on IT customers that shed light on their perceptions about vendor offerings and services. These data center managers, architects, and administrators also address particular issues such as virtualization, purchasing plans, and IT trends.

Some highlights from the ‘Power/ Cooling/ Floorspace’ section of the survey:

• 30% of survey respondents report that they are rapidly running out of electrical capacity.
• Nearly 1/3 say that cooling capacity has become a major concern for them.
• Data center floor space is the most critical issue of all; 42% are “rapidly running out.”
• More than 55% of survey respondents report that their server purchases are “heavily influenced” by power, cooling, and floor space concerns.

Beaverton, OR – November 9, 2007 – Enterprise customers purchasing  x86-based servers will be buying larger systems in the future, according to a survey conducted by Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG). 

Some highlights from the ‘Buying Trends’ section of the survey:

·         Almost half of the survey participants indicated that they will be buying ‘fewer’ or ‘many fewer’ single-socket servers; only 8% plan to purchase ‘more’ or ‘many more’.

·         About 75% of respondents will continue or increase their purchases of multi-processor servers.

o        75% plan to purchase dual-socket systems in the near future;

o        72% say that quad-socket systems are in their near-term plans;

o        64% indicate that they will be purchasing or strongly considering greater-than-four-socket x86 servers in the near future.

Beaverton, OR – November 9, 2007 – Intel brand server processors enjoy higher levels of loyalty among enterprise x86 customers than rival AMD, although system purchases are largely influenced by vendor brand and other non-processor factors, according to a survey conducted by Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG).

Beaverton, OR – October 1, 2007 – Enterprise customers see the x86 server market as a two-horse race between IBM and Hewlett-Packard, narrowly favoring IBM over HP on x86 server technology, but preferring HP on product quality and customer support criteria, according to a survey conducted by Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG). The two other major x86 server vendors, Sun Microsystems and Dell Inc., placed third and fourth respectively.

Beaverton, Oregon – December 12, 2006 – Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG) announced today that IBM (IBM) is the leading vendor according to UNIX customers, according to a newly published IT industry research study by conducted by the firm.  GCG’s 4th Quarter UNIX Vendor Preference Survey queried 277 enterprise UNIX customers about their experiences with and perceptions of the major system vendors on a wide range of criteria. IBM notched wins in both technology and vendor support survey categories.

Beaverton, Oregon – June 20, 2006 – Enterprise x86 server customers narrowly favor IBM over HP, according to IT industry analyst firm Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG) in a newly published research study. GCG’s 1st Quarter 2006 x86 Server Vendor Preference Survey queried 212 enterprise customers about their experiences with and perceptions of the major system vendors on a wide range of criteria. IBM notched wins in technology, performance and service categories while HP led on reliability, availability and manageability criteria. Sun Microsystems, with their line of Opteron servers, finished in 3rd place and Dell, one of the largest x86 server vendors, came in last.

Beaverton, Oregon – December 14, 2005 – IBM is the leading UNIX vendor according to among UNIX customers, according to IT industry analyst firm Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG) in a newly published research study. GCG’s 4th Quarter UNIX Vendor Preference Survey queried 197 enterprise UNIX customers about their experiences with and perceptions of the major system vendors on a wide range of criteria….

New UNIX Market Survey Shows Growing Consolidation Trend

 Customers Increasingly See Cost and Manageability Benefits from Consolidating Server Hardware

Beaverton, Oregon – February 14, 2005 – A new UNIX market study reveals a growing trend in which IT departments are abandoning multi-system ‘server farms’ in favor of consolidating multiple server workloads and applications on fewer, more powerful UNIX servers.