Worldwide server shipment grew by 27 percent, says Gartner

According to a latest
report by href="https://www.dqweek.com/gartner-s-latest-forecast">Gartner,
worldwide server shipment grew by 27.1 percent YoY
in the second quarter of 2010, while revenue climbed up to 14.3
percent.

“As in the first
quarter, the second quarter again demonstrated strong YoY growth.
There remained some regional variations, but all geographies
demonstrated improving market conditions,” said Jeffrey Hewitt,
Research VP, Gartner.

"x86-based servers
grew by 28.9 percent in units in the second quarter and 37.0 percent
in revenue. RISC, Itanium and Unix servers remained constrained, with
a decline of 16.5 percent in shipment and decreases of 8.8 percent in
vendor revenue, compared to the same quarter last year. The 'other'
CPU category, which is primarily mainframe, fell by 22.8 percent in
revenue for the quarter," Hewitt said.

From the regional
standpoint, Eastern Europe grew significantly in server shipment,
with a 46.9 percent increase in the second quarter of 2010, as well
as the highest vendor revenue growth, at 26.2 percent for the period.
All other regions had varying shipment and revenue increases.

HP led the worldwide
server market based on revenue (see Table 1). The company posted just
over $3.5 billion in server-vendor revenue, and accounted for 32
percent of worldwide server revenue for the second quarter of 2010.
HP's share was up by 3.1 percent YoY.

Of the top five global
vendors, Dell, Fujitsu and HP all had revenue increases for the
second quarter of 2010.

In server shipment, HP
remained the worldwide leader in the second quarter of 2010 (see
Table 2) with its market-share totaling up to 30 percent, as
shipments increased to 23.3 percent over the same period last year.

Of the top five vendors in
server shipment worldwide, Dell, Fujitsu, HP and IBM posted increases
in units for the second quarter.

As noted above, the
primary driver of the market growth for the quarter remained the
x86-based server hardware platform, as it was in the first quarter.
However, there was a marked difference between x86-based servers and
non-x86 server platforms for the quarter, with the latter remaining
constrained overall. Blade-servers had the strongest growth of any
form factor, with an increase of 17.8 percent in units and 32.8
percent in vendor revenue for the first quarter.

Additional information is
available to subscribers of Gartner's 'Servers Quarterly Statistics
Worldwide' program. This program provides worldwide market size and
share data by vendor revenue and unit shipment. Segments include:
region, vendor, vendor brand, sub-brand, CPU type, CPU group, max
CPU, platform, price band, operating system and distribution channel.