By Philip Churchill on June 20th, 2008
Home Server Shipments to Rise from 1.2 Million to 90 Million in 2015
In a new market research study, senior analyst and author of the new report Ted Theocheung of the diffusion Group (Dallas) states that the home server is poised for significant growth. Below are highlights from the report:
- The big winners in this emerging product category being consumers and not PC companies.
- The Windows Home Server will initially gain acceptance from a small group of enthusiasts, with consumer companies dominating this area with more user-friendly products in the long term.
- Home server shipments have been forecased to rise from 1.2 million this year to 90 million in 2015.
- Early adopter enthusiasts, like us are using PC-based systems, but CE devices will bring home servers to the mainstream.
- A new wave of home servers from CE companies will hit in 2010 that challenge the PC products. And by 2012 the CE devices will make significant strides against the PC models.
- Ultimately service providers will become a main conduit for providing the CE systems, outpacing retail sales of PC-based systems.
More details on the report are available from here.
Share this WHS Article with Others:
This sounds like a bunch of BS. PC-based vs CE-based? Is HP’s MediaSmart Server considered a CE device? Or does the OS simply have to be called “Embedded” to classify the device as a CE system.
Home Servers Shipment are like how Microsoft counts Vista sales, that is licenses sold with pre-loaded PC’s to OEM/RTM, not actually retailed PC purchases. And of those actually sold, all XP downgrades don’t count, thanks to Microsoft’s method here as well. You must buy Vista to get XP, and those numbers are counted for Vista only.
The actual WHS sold numbers are very low, especially when you consider how Firefox users downloaded in one day some 18 million FREE copies whereas the entire whole home server market claimed here in a years time only experienced just 1.2 million shipments (not retails, not purchased, and not actual sales).
And at this point, in the home server market, you don’t need a high cost server just to backup your data, which WHS doesn’t even provide a default method of backing up the WHS operating system database even with PP1, being how Microsoft took away this advertised feature after many months telling everyone about it.
So WHS isn’t even able to backup itself, and that’s suppose to be a backup solution? Do pigs fly?