Server and Database 2017 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 survey covering six categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for fourteen Server and Database products. 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, 2017

Brand Leader Survey Methodology Page 4

Brand Leader Voting Definitions Page 5

2017 Server and Database Brand Leader Survey Winners Chart Page 6

Respondent Title/Job Description Page 8

Respondent Data Center Environment Page 9

2017 ARM-based Server Processors Market Leader Chart Page 11

2017 Dense Low Power Microservers Market Leader Chart Page 12

2017 Enterprise Blade Servers Market Leader Chart Page 13

2017 Enterprise Cluster Operating System Market Leader Chart Page 14

2017 Enterprise Rackmount Servers Market Leader Chart Page 15

2017 Enterprise Server LOM & MLOM Market Leader Chart Page 16

2017 Enterprise Server Operating System Market Leader Chart Page 17

2017 Enterprise Server Processors Market Leader Chart Page 18

2017 In-Memory Database Market Leader Chart Page 19

2017 Integrated System Market Leader Chart Page 20

2017 NoSQL Database Market Leader Chart Page 21

2017 Server GPUs Market Leader Chart Page 22

2017 SQL Database Market Leader Chart Page 23

2017 White Box Servers Market Leader Chart Page 24 3

Server and Database 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 brand leader survey was conducted in February, 2017. – 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 nine IT Pros responded to 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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Brand Leader Definitions

2017 Server & Database

Brand Leaders Voted by IT Pros Survey conducted February, 2017

ARM-based Server Processors Qualcomm Centriq Qualcomm Centriq Qualcomm Centriq Qualcomm Centriq Qualcomm Centriq Qualcomm Centriq

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

Enterprise Blade Servers HPE Dell EMC HPE HPE Dell EMC HPE

Enterprise Cluster Operating System Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft

Enterprise Rackmount Servers Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC

Enterprise Server LOM & MLOM Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel

Enterprise Server Operating System Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux

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

In-Memory Database Oracle MongoDB Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle

Integrated System Cisco Dell EMC Cisco Cisco Dell EMC Cisco

NoSQL Database MongoDB AWS MongoDB MongoDB AWS AWS

Server GPUs NVIDIA NVIDIA NVIDIA NVIDIA NVIDIA NVIDIA

SQL Database Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle

White Box Servers Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC

Respondent Profiles

Respondent Title/Job Description:

VAR/OEM

Other

Executive/Management

Storage Administrator/Architect

Network Administrator/Architect

Server Administrator/Architect

Data Center Manager

IT Manager/Director

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Your environment is best described as:

Other

Public Cloud/Data Center Provider

Product Development

High performance computing data center

Small-medium business data center

Enterprise data center

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Market Leaders

2017 Market Leader ARM-based Server Processors

AppliedMicro X-Gene Cavium ThunderX Marvell Armada Qualcomm Centriq Other

Who do you perceive as the market leader for ARM-based Server Processors?

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2017 Market Leader Dense Low Power Microservers

HPE Moonshot Quanta Supermicro Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for Dense Low Power Microservers?

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2017 Market Leader Enterprise Blade Servers

Cisco Dell EMC Fujitsu HPE Huawei IBM Lenovo NEC Oracle Super

micro

Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for Enterprise Blade Servers?

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2017 Market Leader Enterprise Cluster Operating System

IBM Microsoft Oracle Red Hat SUSE Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for Enterprise Cluster Operating System?

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2017 Market Leader Enterprise Rackmount Servers

Cisco Dell EMC Fujitsu HPE Huawei IBM Lenovo NEC Oracle Super

micro

Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for Enterprise Rackmount Servers?

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2017 Market Leader Enterprise Server LOM & MLOM

Broadcom Cavium/QLogic Intel Mellanox Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for Enterprise Server LOM & MLOM?

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2017 Market Leader Enterprise Server Operating System

HP-UX IBM-AIX Microsoft

Windows

Oracle Solaris Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux Other

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for Enterprise Server Operating System?

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2017 Market Leader Enterprise Server Processors

AMD

Opteron

AppliedMicro

X-Gene

Cavium

ThunderX

IBM Power Intel Xeon Marvell

Armada

Qualcomm

Centriq

Other

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Enterprise Server Processors?

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2017 Market Leader In-Memory Database

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Who do you perceive as the market leader for In-Memory Database?

2017 Market Leader Integrated System

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Integrated System?

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2017 Market Leader NoSQL Database

Who do you perceive as the market leader for NoSQL Database?

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2017 Market Leader Server GPUs

AMD Intel NVIDIA Other

Who do you perceive as the market leader for Server GPUs?

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2017 Market Leader SQL Database

Actian Altibase AWS EnterpriseDB

Fujitsu IBM MariaDB MemSQL Microsoft NuoDB Oracle SAP Other

Who do you perceive as the market leader for SQL Database?

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2017 Market Leader White Box Servers

Dell EMC DeltaGroup

Hon Hai/Foxconn

HPE Inventec IronSystems

Pegatron Quanta Supermicro Wistron/Wiwynn

Other

Who do you perceive as the market leader for White Box Servers?

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