This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey conducted in February, 2017 covering six categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for fourteen Server and Database products. Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.

1. Server and Database
2017 Brand Leader Survey
Mini-Report

2. Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data
from the independent, non-sponsored survey covering six
categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance,
Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for fourteen
Server and Database products.
Complete survey data for each product category is available.
Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and
pricing.
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Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey

3. Table of Contents
Server and Database Brand Leader Survey Mini-Report, 2017
Brand Leader Survey Methodology Page 4
Brand Leader Voting Definitions Page 5
2017 Server and Database Brand Leader Survey Winners Chart Page 6
Respondent Title/Job Description Page 8
Respondent Data Center Environment Page 9
2017 ARM-based Server Processors Market Leader Chart Page 11
2017 Dense Low Power Microservers Market Leader Chart Page 12
2017 Enterprise Blade Servers Market Leader Chart Page 13
2017 Enterprise Cluster Operating System Market Leader Chart Page 14
2017 Enterprise Rackmount Servers Market Leader Chart Page 15
2017 Enterprise Server LOM & MLOM Market Leader Chart Page 16
2017 Enterprise Server Operating System Market Leader Chart Page 17
2017 Enterprise Server Processors Market Leader Chart Page 18
2017 In-Memory Database Market Leader Chart Page 19
2017 Integrated System Market Leader Chart Page 20
2017 NoSQL Database Market Leader Chart Page 21
2017 Server GPUs Market Leader Chart Page 22
2017 SQL Database Market Leader Chart Page 23
2017 White Box Servers Market Leader Chart Page 24 3

4. Server and Database
Brand Leader Survey Methodology
• Brand Leader Reports are designed to measure the pulse of brand leadership in specific product
categories using independent, non-sponsored surveys with at least 200 respondents.
• The Server and Database brand leader survey was conducted in February, 2017.
– Respondents were solicited from over 1,000,000 members of 100+ online IT groups, and from the IT Brand
Pulse IT professional database.
– Two hundred and nine IT Pros responded to this survey.
– Responses were collected using an online survey engine.
• In each part, respondents were provided with a product category description, list of vendor choices
(plus an “Other” answer choice to add a vendor, if applicable), and were asked six questions:
1. Who do you perceive as the <product category> market leader?
2. Who do you perceive as the <product category> price leader?
3. Who do you perceive as the <product category> performance leader?
4. Who do you perceive as the <product category> reliability leader?
5. Who do you perceive as the <product category> service & support leader?
6. Who do you perceive as the <product category> innovation leader?
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5. 5
Brand Leader Definitions

6. 2017 Server & Database
Brand Leaders
Voted by IT Pros
Survey conducted February, 2017
ARM-based Server Processors Qualcomm Centriq Qualcomm Centriq Qualcomm Centriq Qualcomm Centriq Qualcomm Centriq Qualcomm Centriq
Dense Low Power Microservers HPE Moonshot Supermicro HPE Moonshot HPE Moonshot HPE Moonshot HPE Moonshot
Enterprise Blade Servers HPE Dell EMC HPE HPE Dell EMC HPE
Enterprise Cluster Operating System Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft
Enterprise Rackmount Servers Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC
Enterprise Server LOM & MLOM Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel Intel
Enterprise Server Operating System Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux
Enterprise Server Processors Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon
In-Memory Database Oracle MongoDB Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle
Integrated System Cisco Dell EMC Cisco Cisco Dell EMC Cisco
NoSQL Database MongoDB AWS MongoDB MongoDB AWS AWS
Server GPUs NVIDIA NVIDIA NVIDIA NVIDIA NVIDIA NVIDIA
SQL Database Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle Oracle
White Box Servers Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC Dell EMC

7. Respondent Profiles

8. Respondent Title/Job Description:
VAR/OEM
Other
Executive/Management
Storage Administrator/Architect
Network Administrator/Architect
Server Administrator/Architect
Data Center Manager
IT Manager/Director
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9. Your environment is best described as:
Other
Public Cloud/Data Center Provider
Product Development
High performance computing data center
Small-medium business data center
Enterprise data center
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10. Market Leaders

11. 2017 Market Leader
ARM-based Server Processors
AppliedMicro X-Gene Cavium ThunderX Marvell Armada Qualcomm Centriq Other
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader for
ARM-based Server
Processors?
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
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12. 2017 Market Leader
Dense Low Power Microservers
HPE Moonshot Quanta Supermicro Other
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader for
Dense Low Power
Microservers?
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13. 2017 Market Leader
Enterprise Blade Servers
Cisco Dell EMC Fujitsu HPE Huawei IBM Lenovo NEC Oracle Super
micro
Other
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader for
Enterprise Blade
Servers?
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14. 2017 Market Leader
Enterprise Cluster Operating System
IBM Microsoft Oracle Red Hat SUSE Other
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for Enterprise Cluster
Operating System?
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15. 2017 Market Leader
Enterprise Rackmount Servers
Cisco Dell EMC Fujitsu HPE Huawei IBM Lenovo NEC Oracle Super
micro
Other
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you perceive
as the market leader
for Enterprise
Rackmount Servers?
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16. 2017 Market Leader
Enterprise Server LOM & MLOM
Broadcom Cavium/QLogic Intel Mellanox Other
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader for
Enterprise Server
LOM & MLOM?
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17. 2017 Market Leader
Enterprise Server Operating System
HP-UX IBM-AIX Microsoft
Windows
Oracle Solaris Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux Other
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader for
Enterprise Server
Operating System?
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18. 2017 Market Leader
Enterprise Server Processors
AMD
Opteron
AppliedMicro
X-Gene
Cavium
ThunderX
IBM Power Intel Xeon Marvell
Armada
Qualcomm
Centriq
Other
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader for
Enterprise Server
Processors?
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
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19. 2017 Market Leader
In-Memory Database
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
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Who do you
perceive as the
market leader
for In-Memory
Database?

20. 2017 Market Leader
Integrated System
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader
for Integrated
System?
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
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21. 2017 Market Leader
NoSQL Database
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader
for NoSQL
Database?
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
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22. 2017 Market Leader
Server GPUs
AMD Intel NVIDIA Other
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader
for Server GPUs?
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
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23. 2017 Market Leader
SQL Database
Actian Altibase AWS Enterprise
DB
Fujitsu IBM MariaDB MemSQL Microsoft NuoDB Oracle SAP Other
Who do you
perceive as
the market
leader for SQL
Database?
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
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24. 2017 Market Leader
White Box Servers
Dell EMC Delta
Group
Hon Hai/
Foxconn
HPE Inventec Iron
Systems
Pegatron Quanta Supermicro Wistron/
Wiwynn
Other
Who do you
perceive as the
market leader
for White Box
Servers?
Feb. 2017 Brand Leader Survey
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