Trend Report

Demand Insights: The SMB Hardware Infrastructure Market

SMBs' Plans For Servers, Storage, Virtualization, Form Factors, And Cloud Computing

Tim Harmon
 and  two contributors
Apr 20, 2011

Summary

Suppliers of infrastructure hardware to small and medium-size business (SMB) buyers are poised for better times, given plans by SMBs to upgrade their software and associated hardware infrastructures — but only for those vendors that embrace and deliver a broad-portfolio services and solutions orientation. Storage and server technologies top SMBs' budget lists, but much of that will be consumed by the SMB market as a cloud service. 2011 and 2012 will be marked years for SMB client device form-factor transition, too, as data-hungry tablets emerge as viable business devices.

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