Dell Korea vows double-digit growth in server business
By Yoon Sung-won
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Dell Korea Vice President Kim Sung-jun speaks during a press conference at the Dell Server Solution Seminar 2015 at the COEX Intercontinental hotel in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul, Wednesday. / Courtesy of Dell Korea
Dell Korea said Wednesday it will continue double-digit growth in the server business year amid a slowdown in the global market.
“We recorded double-digit growth last year despite the report by global market researcher International Data Corporation (IDC) that the server market size has decreased compared to the previous year,” said Dell Korea Vice President Kim Sung-joon during a press conference at the Dell Server Solution Seminar 2015 at the COEX Intercontinental Hotel in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul, Wednesday.
“The report also forecast that the server market here will shrink by 3 percent this year. But our perspective is optimistic because our server portfolio can satisfy customers’ need for cost-efficient systems.”
Dell has been a major business in the global server industry, which is rapidly shifting from Unix to the more cost-efficiency x86. Dell is concentrating on the latter.
Citing technology forecasts announced by global market researchers such as IDC and Gartner, Kim emphasized that software-defined technology is one of the growth areas in 2015, alongside the Internet of Things, big data and cloud computing services.
“This year, we will observe more blending between IT and business and we thought about how to improve server systems to contribute to expanding corporate revenue and profits,” Kim said.
“Dell has access to all four markets for servers _ large global Internet companies, the sizable web technology and high-performance computing market, traditional enterprises and small-and-medium businesses _ by satisfying their respective needs.”
Stan Nguyen, Dell Asia-Pacific and Japan engineer director, introduced Dell’s software-definition server system based on its latest x86 server products “PowerEdge 13G” and “PowerEdge FX2” systems.
The benefits of software-defined architecture are reduced maintenance costs, greater agility to seamless migrate data from existing servers and storage that can simplify IT operations in enterprises.
About the competition with market contenders such as Chinese server manufacturer Lenovo, which acquired an x86 business division last year, Kevin Noreen, Dell Global Server Platform Director, showed confidence in the company’s technological advantage.
“Cost efficiency is not just about acquisition costs. We have better technologies that help our corporate clients dramatically save time and money needed for server deployment, updates and so on.”