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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

The market for servers shows good results

In the third quarter of the world market for servers has improved markedly as revenue, and the volume of supply-thanks to the growing demand in developing countries and the need for additional resources data storage.
According to a report released on Monday Gartner, for the third quarter has sold 2.2 million servers by 8.7% more than during the corresponding period last year. Revenue producers to 2.6% rose to $ 13.4 billion The engine of growth serve servers both the x86, while revenues from UNIX- RISC-Itanium servers grew by 8%.
"The growth in developing markets, combined with the continuing demand for additional capacity exceeds any overwhelming factors, such as virtualization of servers the statement says Gartner analyst Errola Reyzita. - No impact of the instability of financial markets servers on the market in the third quarter is not noticeable. "
The income market IBM servers continues to lead, despite their decline by 8%. Deliveries of IBM servers in kind declined by almost 4%, with a total market share of the company fell slightly less than 2%. Revenues from sales of servers IBM System p and System x rose, but revenue from System z and the System i declined.
The maximum number of servers still sells HP, which has placed customers at 20.2% more devices than a year ago, and completed the quarter with a market share 26.5%.
Dell continues to show steady progress after months of setbacks. Sales of the company are growing second consecutive quarter and increased by 5.4%. Market share volume for Dell shipments grew by 0.7%.
Sun Microsystems demonstrated income jumped to 11.4% because of the successful sales of its Sparc Enterprise servers. However, total deliveries in kind declined by 4.5%.
The engine of growth remained blade-server market, where sales increased by 13.8%. In the third quarter of the share blade-server had 10% of the market. In this segment still leads HP, which has increased the supply over the same period the previous year starter at 91%.
Five leaders of proceeds from sales of servers looks like this: IBM with 30.1% market share, HP with 28.1%, Dell with 11.8%; Sun with 11% and Fujitsu / FSC with 4.9%. For the first five volumes of supplies seats are: HP with 29.3%, Dell with 21.8%, IBM with 14.4%, with 3.6% Sun and Fujitsu / FSC with a 3.4% market share of servers.

 

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