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2015Gartner集成系统魔力象限报告揭示超融合系统快速增长
来源:高端存储知识  :西瓜哥 2015-08-17 09:40:03
给大家分享Gartner刚刚发布的集成系统魔力象限报告《Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems》。

给大家分享Gartner刚刚发布的集成系统魔力象限报告《Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems》。

Gartner说,集成系统继续走向融合,传统的基于刀片服务器和SAN的集成系统虽然继续存在,但超融合系统发展更快,到2019年,超融合形态将占据集成系统35%的份额。

我们直接看看大家最关心的2015年魔力象限结果吧。

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为了对比,我把2014年的也翻出来了,大家对比看看变化。

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我们先看一下增加的厂商情况:

1、Cisco:Cisco独立出来了,而原来是和NetApp联合在一起的,主要是Cisco现在除了NetApp外,还和EMC、IBM、Nimble、Hitachi、Maxta,Simplivity,Atlantis等合作。

2、EMC(VCE):EMC现在持有90%的VCE股份,因此VCE就用EMC代表了;

3、Lenovo:因为联想收购了IBM的X86业务,包括PureFlex集成系统。

4、NetApp:Cisco独立出来,NetApp也只能独立出来了;

5、Gridstore,Nimboxx,Pivot3,Scale Computing:这4个新加入的厂商都是做超融合系统的,是由于他们的出货量增加,达到了Gartner的标准。这也可以看出超融合系统市场在快速发展,竞争加剧。

当然,也有两个厂商出局了:

1、Bull:Bull被Atos收购,但Atos一直没有把集成系统作为目标市场;

2、Unisys:Unisys的X86变种市场动力不足,没有足够的市场成绩来创建一个可用的分析。

两年都在里面的厂商,我们可以简单看看位置的变化:

1、Nutanix和HP从远见者变为领导者,这个是比较显著的变化了。西瓜哥的这份报告就是从Nutanix拿到的。

2、IBM由于X86业务的出售,从远见者变为利基玩家。

3、Dell、Fujitsu和Teredata都被降级了。

4、Simplivity和Huawei的位置有所上升。

我想,要点就是这些了。大家要仔细了解,可以看原文链接里面西瓜哥给大家提供的详细报告。

如果大家懒得看,我把要点摘录在这里。不过,由于涉及厂商太多,西瓜哥就不一一翻译了,直接摘录英文原文的内容,见谅。

Gartner定义的集成系统,其实是分三个大类:

Integrated stack system (ISS)

Server, storage and network hardware integrated with application software to provide appliance or appliancelike functionality. Examples include IBM PureApplication System, Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Teradata. Note that this research does not evaluate the "stack" components of any solution; therefore, this research should not be used as a primary basis for software selection.

Integrated infrastructure system (IIS)

Server, storage and network hardware integrated to provide shared compute infrastructure. Examples include VCE Vblock, HP ConvergedSystem and Lenovo Converged System (formerly PureFlex).

Hyperconverged integrated system (HCIS) —

Tightly coupled compute, network and storage hardware that dispenses with the need for a regular storage area network (SAN). Storage management functions — plus optional capabilities like backup, recovery, replication, deduplication and compression — are delivered via the management software layer and/or hardware, together with compute provisioning. Examples include Gridstore, Nimboxx, Nutanix, Pivot3, Scale Computing and SimpliVity.

这三个大类其实是有重叠的,而且有些厂商甚至可以同时提供这三大类的集成系统。

总的来说,集成系统主要采用Intel或AMD x86技术,也有用RISC变种的,如Power和SPARC,甚至新市场也出现ARM和Intel Atom处理器的案例。

下面按照字母顺序介绍几个大家普遍比较关注的厂商的强项和注意事项。本来想把所有厂商都列上的,但超过了微信允许的长度,因此只摘录部分厂商。

Cisco

Strengths

Cisco has a strong Vblock data center presence with repeat buys.

Cisco offers multiple storage reference architectures, including a market-leading NetApp solution that uses FlexPod, while expanding its portfolio of solutions through partnerships with SimpliVity, StorMagic, Maxta and other HCIS technologies.

Cisco has a large global sales channel and support team with strong complementary engineering capabilities.

Cautions

Cisco's lack of native storage solutions creates barriers to further IIS/HCIS progress for the company, as this emphasizes the reliance on external partners.

Cisco's HCIS strategy is still in a nascent phase, and builds mainly on partnerships such as those with SimpliVity, Maxta and StorMagic.

Cisco faces further competitive dilution as EMC-VCE broadens its focus to offer low-cost compute, scale-out storage and expanded management capabilities.

Dell

Strengths

Dell sells a strong portfolio of integrated systems that spans all the categories that Gartner has defined, and is aided by strong partnerships with vendors like Nutanix and Microsoft.

Some Dell solutions, such as VRTX and CPS, are highly differentiated in the market.

Dell has overcome the uncertainties over going private and is executing its server and storage strategies well, giving the company a good global foundation for integrated system market growth.

Cautions

Dell's integrated system positioning has been inconsistent. Multiple branding initiatives and a variety of software acquisitions have muddled the end-user perception of Dell as an integrated system vendor.

FX2 has the capacity to be a unifying force for Dell's strategy, but a muted product launch robbed Dell of the opportunity to make a stronger initial impression with what is a highly innovative product.

Although successful in their respective markets, platforms like VRTX and CPS address a very finite audience, with limited opportunity for sales success to benefit Dell's broader integrated system market opportunity.

EMC (VCE)

Strengths

EMC is able to build on VCE's established position as one of the clear leaders in the integrated system market with Vblocks.

EMC offers factory-integrated and -validated reference architectures for enterprise mission-critical applications.

EMC is a proven global vendor with extensive channel and direct sales, plus service, support.

Cautions

EMC's VSPEX Blue hyperconverged solutions have relatively high average entry upfront costs and long configuration to deployment cycles versus competing HCIS solutions.

EMC-VCE has not been in the market long enough to establish a reputation in HCIS and in creating scale-out capability on Vblock fabric.

EMC may struggle with how to position its various platforms based on use cases, applications and scale, including recognition that new SAN-less racks and VSPEX appliances pose potential cannibalization of SAN-based block solutions.

Hitachi

Strengths

Hitachi (and Hitachi Data Systems) is able to build on a strong and established storage vendor reputation, as well as growing recognition for high-quality customer support and technology innovation, expanding from a storage and system vendor to support for mobile and social innovation (for example, Mode 2) that leverages its UCP technology.

Hitachi Data Systems has broadened the appeal of Hitachi UCP through strong alliances with global ISVs and other partners. As a result of these alliances, Hitachi Data Systems provides API access for integration with third-party software and management tools (such as automation and orchestration based on its vision for microservices), with service provider tools and portals.

The growing investment in blade servers, along with Hitachi Data Systems' focus on topical markets like SAP Hana, enhance the Hitachi UCP market opportunity and its sales growth.

Cautions

Hitachi Data Systems is in the midst of developing global coverage, including hyperconverged integrated systems to rival the rapid advances in the industry. As a leading storage vendor, it is challenged to develop and execute the balance where a cohesive hyperconverged strategy is compatible with the need to preserve market demand for integrated systems based on external controller-based storage.

The Hitachi Data Systems partnership with Cisco has absorbed the company's sales channels and alliances, and may distract its corporate positioning, causing confusion among some users.

To help gain international acceptance, Hitachi has chosen to drive its integrated system strategy from California, although the IT market clearly perceives Hitachi as a Japanese company. This places particular onus on Hitachi to deliver consistent global messaging.

HP

Strengths

HP has a broad portfolio of integrated systems and reference architectures (from hyperconverged ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual to the ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP Hana), along with a strong channel and relationships among ISVs (Microsoft, SAP, VMware, Citrix) that target various use cases (data analytics, SQL Server, Oracle and video streaming).

Unlike many vendors, HP can offer single-vendor server network storage end-to-end contract support and accountability with factory preintegration and pay-per-use options.

HP integrated system users benefit from improved HP OneView holistic resource and life cycle management and analytics, with easier and quicker infrastructure deployments via configuration templates.

Cautions

At times, Gartner client feedback indicates that HP has not yet crystalized messaging, positioning, selection, and build and order processes related to its complex portfolio of integrated system solutions.

HP offers reference architectures and builds among other network and storage equipment suppliers for OneView; support for these architectures and builds is only becoming available on a gradual basis as OpenView adoption builds.

HP's HCIS offering (HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC StoreVirtual) is still in early rollout and is just beginning to ramp up as HCIS competition increases from nontraditional IT vendors, such as Nutanix and SimpliVity.

Huawei

Strengths

Huawei is an established data center brand in China, with a growing customer base across the world.

Huawei is growing its global presence and can leverage existing acceptance in telecommunications and data center networking accounts to do this.

Huawei's investment in integrated system technology supports its goals of becoming a global data center brand. Huawei leverages latest-generation technologies, and also has a track record of unique technology innovation and differentiation.

Cautions

ISV support for FusionCube is improving, but Gartner client inquiries have indicated potential for support and certification issues with some third-party software vendors.

Huawei is still growing its global presence; outside of Asia/Pacific, direct or partner coverage may be lacking, depending on location.

Huawei's recognition as an integrated system provider is only gradually building on the back of outbound promotion at Huawei events and other conferences, so the company's credibility among IT organizations outside its home geography is inconsistent.

IBM

Strengths

IBM has a strong reputation that spans hardware performance, software, services and support.

PureApplication and PureData are tuned and optimized to run IBM software stacks with high performance and functionality.

With no in-house x86 strategy to defend, IBM is able to pursue a stronger focus on Power-based solutions and partner with multiple x86 vendors, including Lenovo and Cisco.

Cautions

With the market strongly skewed toward general-purpose solutions based on x86 technology, IBM's market presence has become more niche-oriented with a focus on stack integration.

Despite the strong software focus, IBM has not yet achieved recognition as a vendor committed to the hyperconvergence category of the market.

New go-to-market partnerships with Cisco, Lenovo and other vendors are relatively unproven.

Lenovo

Strengths

Lenovo has a leading market presence and global coverage with its acquired System X business, existing ThinkServer and Wanquan server customers, and via its large network of channel partners.

Lenovo has maintained the enterprise credentials inherited from IBM's success in this market, such as SAP Hana certification with Lenovo Converged System.

Flex System enhancements, along with additional postacquisition partnerships like closer alignment with EMC, have played an important role in proving Lenovo's attractiveness as a partner provider and augmenting its integrated system strategy.

Cautions

Gartner inquiries and client surveys indicate a decreasing confidence in Lenovo's credibility as an enterprise vendor following the System X acquisition.

Lenovo must demonstrate that it can retain the staff and channel partners that have been inherited through the acquisition. It must also maintain its enterprise focus while shifting the focus of its business, including transitioning integrated systems to a volume-oriented market.

Lenovo must execute credible postacquisition roadmaps to demonstrate that the previous IBM investment in integrated system engineering and product innovation will not suffer under new ownership.

NetApp

Strengths

NetApp has a worldwide presence, a huge installed base, FlexPod success, sales bandwidth and partnership relationships.

Both FlexPod and Evo:Rail offer integration with the cloud.

FlexPod is designed to be hypervisor-agnostic, and is validated with VMware ESX, Hyper-V and XenServer. FlexPod will also work with bare metal when no hypervisor is suitable.

Cautions

Changes in NetApp senior management and losses of key personnel may portend future changes of focus in marketing and product strategies.

Cisco's new management team has de-emphasized its relationship with NetApp and may not be as emotionally invested in the business-to-business relationship as the old guard. The Cisco relationships with hyperconvergence vendors like SimpliVity and expanded partnerships with other storage vendors indicate a reduction in the strategic value of NetApp as a partner.

NetApp has a partner-dependent business model, making the company less attractive to customers who favor a more holistic, single-vendor solution, such as those from Oracle, IBM and HP.

Nutanix

Strengths

Nutanix has gained market credibility, established a worldwide presence with approximately 30% of revenue coming from outside of North America and built an installed base that provides significant upgrade and expansion revenue.

With the launch of Xtreme Computing Platform composed of Acropolis and Prism, Nutanix is now a complete infrastructure solutions company, providing its customers flexibility in their choice of hypervisors and cloud usage.

The Acropolis scale-out architecture, along with the ability to scale compute and storage independently, enables users to grow Nutanix deployments incrementally to meet application needs.

Cautions

Nutanix is no longer small enough for the established system vendors to ignore or dismiss, and will therefore confront tougher competition going forward.

Nutanix still lacks proven channel and support capability in some countries, so international users should validate these capabilities.

Many conservative IT organizations are reluctant to do business with privately held companies in the belief that they lack proven governance, transparency or likelihood of longevity.

Oracle

Strengths

Oracle offers a strong portfolio of integrated systems, with proven performance benefits for Oracle software workloads.

Oracle enables application owners to become effective buying centers and points of administration for its Engineered Systems.

Oracle has aggressive marketing, close alignment of its software and hardware strategies, and an opportunity to cross-sell and upsell into its installed base.

Cautions

Oracle's Engineered Systems are perceived as relatively expensive as they tie in server and storage infrastructure with Oracle software.

Gartner client inquiries demonstrate a continued fear of vendor lock-in of integrated software stacks, tied to hardware asset life cycles and varieties of licensing models (for example, Core, User and Enterprise License Agreement [ELA]).

Oracle's focus on creating SPARC/Solaris differentiation versus solutions based on Linux/x86 risks rebalancing the current dual platform equilibrium.

SimpliVity

Strengths

SimpliVity has been able to grow its value proposition from a foundation of project-based opportunities like VDI, to address an ever-broader variety of mission-critical use cases. This has developed from SMB/midmarket growth to increasingly displace existing enterprise Infrastructure.

The HCI modularity of OmniCube enables high scaling in small server/storage increments; and it has a highly innovative design that incorporates in-line deduplication and data compression at origin, and provides a global namespace and native virtual machine backup.

SimpliVity's management tools connect to existing management frameworks via standard APIs (vCenter/OpenStack), and wide-area support facilitates business continuity strategies and management of remote sites.

Cautions

Clients should validate the pre- and postsales capabilities of local channel partners (especially outside North America).

SimpliVity is more mature at selling to SMB/midmarket customers. For greater success in selling to enterprise customers, the company needs to prove a robust business case to displace existing solutions that address the HA and disaster recovery needs established in the enterprise portfolio.

Because shipments of OmniCube began in early 2013, the installed base is still growing from a foundation that was initially skewed toward projects like VDI. Users should qualify more complex use cases using relevant reference clients, preferably in the same vertical industry and/or region.

【西瓜哥观点】

1、集成系统市场快速发展,特别是超融合系统尤其受到Startup公司青睐;Nutanix的榜样作用使得资本也纷纷进入这个市场;

2、几乎所有的服务器厂商都进入了集成系统市场,存储厂商代表EMC和NetApp很早就进入这个市场,使得集成系统玩家众多,竞争加剧。

3、应用为主导的集成系统,即ISS集成堆栈系统,由于用户担心被厂商锁定,并没有成为集成系统的最主流形态。

编辑:闫春春
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