The increasing business requirements for advanced processor technologies, complex data evaluation, and high storage demands are attributing to the growth of next generation data center architectures. Moreover, today’s business needs highly reliable applications, more servers in the data center and secondary data centers to survive in the competitive and agile environment. Next generation data centers supports the increasing need for highly reliable and the fastest changing business and IT landscape. Moreover, these data centers meet the increasing expectations for high speed, scalability and availability. The report classifies the next generation data center market with respect to components such as hardware, software, and services. In the next-generation data centers, software accounts for maximum share as most of the critical operational and management functions will be enabled in the software. This is estimated to dramatically impact the Information Technology (IT) sector. Moreover,...