IBM and HP top worldwide server markets | | 2008-08-22 | | | The latest report on server sales from industry analysts, Gartner, shows an increase of 12.2 percent in worldwide server shipments for the second quarter of 2008 with worldwide server revenue for the same period climbing 5.7 percent. Worldwide server revenue totalled $13.8 billion with 2.3 million units shipped.Dell’s server revenue climbed an impressive 15 percent, taking the number three spot from Sun. IBM and HP continue to lead in the revenue stakes with 11.5 percent growth for IBM and 2.9 percent growth for HP, while Sun’s revenue declined 6.8 percent and Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens’ remained static."In spite of economic constraints in some markets like the United States, on a worldwide basis, servers continued to grow in the second quarter of the year,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. “The most significant driver in the quarter continued to be an upswing in x86 server replacements that started in the first quarter. This, coupled with Web data centre build outs and growth in emerging markets, produced solid Q2 results.”“RISC-Itanium Unix servers fell 7.9 percent in shipments but grew 9.4 percent in revenue indicating that higher-end systems were the hardware platforms that drove sales in this space,” Hewitt added.IBM maintained its revenue lead in the server market with solid increases in both its System p and System z brands which offset some revenue declines in its other brands. This represents a year-to-year revenue increase of 11.5 percent for the period and pushed IBM’s share up 1.6 percent. IBM’s overall revenue share lead over second-place HP was 3.6 percent for the quarter.In terms of actual shipments, HP grew 8.7 percent compared to the second quarter of 2007, and retained its worldwide server shipment lead. The share gap between it and second-place Dell decreased 3.4 percentage points. HP finished the quarter with a 30.2 percent shipment share with growth in its ProLiant, HP Integrity and HP NonStop series. HP’s share of blade server shipments rose by 3.6 percent for a total of 45.2 percent. | |
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