Growth is one of the big themes in the data center for 2005/2006. Server growth is at 11% on average, year-on-year, while storage growth is a stagerring 22% per year, according to Nemertes upcoming research benchmark on next-generation data centers.

To deal with the explosive demand for IT services and resources, data centers are also being transformed.

Companies can select one of two main strategies: scale-out by buying more commodity servers and storage, or high-density where more services are delivered by fewer more dense and powerful servers and storage systems.

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