Ruggedized Blade Market Takes Their Cut of the Stimulus Pie

Don’t miss the opportunity to get on the northbound Stimulus train which has already left the station. Our report details where the stimulus monies are being award, as well as, the 2009 – 2014 forecast projecting platform growth to include AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA, BladeCenter HT, and VPX. This is going to be a big year for IT Healthcare and Broadband awards.

Government Broadband and IT Healthcare Stimulus dollars are streaming rather quickly into the marketplace. Most Recently the State of Virginia and Washington State have been awarded sizeable dollars. Their combined award amounts to approximately $500 million. In the IT Healthcare arena $1 Billion has already been awarded. Crystal Cube Consulting (CCC) is projecting 2011 and beyond to be substantial in ruggedized blade sales.

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Previously Released Reports & Whitepapers

2009

“MicroTCA Fits into Smaller Places to Grow a Bigger Market”

Released January 2009

2008

“Rock Paper Scissors: Will Pizza Boxes Beat Blades in Cyberspace”

Released July 2008

2007

“Switch Fabrics 2007: RapidIO Takes the High Road To Embedded Systems”

Released June 2007

“BladeCenter HT Lays Siege to AdvancedTCA”

Released April 2007

“A Competitive Analysis of IBM BladeCenter™ with Intel® Xeon® Processors vs. Sun Bladed Offerings - HT Update”

Released February 2007

2006

What's Up with MicroTCA? AMC Modules in a MicroTCA

Released January 2006
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2005

AdvancedTCA Grows Up & Joins the Army: A PICMG Look at Federal and Other Verticals

Released September 2005
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New Open System Architectures (ATCA/AMC & µTCA)

Crystal Cube Consulting's report entitled, “Advanced Mezzanine Cards Take the AdvancedTCA to New Levels” has now been released and is available for your consideration. It certainly appears on the surface that Advanced Mezzainine Cards (AMC) will definitely trump the previous generation of CompactPCI and VME solutions.

2004

AdvancedTCA and Bus Architectures

Our third report, that was released January 2004, focuses on the new Advanced Telecommunications Computing Technology (ATCA) standard for telecom and datacom applications.

Bus Wars the Sequel: Life in the Fast Lane

The update of Bus Wars, entitled “Bus Wars the Sequel: Life in the Fast Lane” was released the last week o April 2004, which analysis the influences that the switch fabric design will have on the high-speed peer-to-peer market and how the bus architecture standards will fair in that environment. Please click on the navigational link to the left-side of this page labeled "Bus Wars Update", which will allow you to review the abstract and consider purchasing the report.

2003

The first major project we undertook was in sizing up the entire, hidden software market that has been festering within the Networking Equipment Industry. That report was released in May of 2003. Following that the ground-breaking report entitled, "Bus Wars Episode II: Clash of the Titans", was released July 31, 2003, providing a complete analysis of the high-speed bus architecture market.

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