IBM
leads the worldwide
server market in Q2 2013, claiming a 25.6 percent share with a revenue of
$3.156 billion USD, Gartner reports. As per the same quarter in 2012, that
number is actually down 9.7 percent from a 27.2 percent market share and revenue
of $3.496 billion USD. Both HP and Oracle saw a decline year-over-year while
Dell, Cisco, and another of others saw growth.
Whereas
the general server market revenue drops to 3.8% in the second quarter,
worldwide server shipments actually elevated 4 percent year-over-year. Inspur
Electronics saw the most shipments, up 211.8 percent with 20,960
shipments in 2012 and 65,350 shipments in 2013. Only with distant second, Cisco
came next with a 58.5 percent increase year-over-year then followed by “others”
(14.4 percent) and Dell (1.7 percent). IBM shipments fell 8 percent
year-over-year and HP dropped 13.6 percent.
Despite
HP’s drop in server shipments, the company remained the worldwide market leader
in Q2 2013 with a 23.9 percent market share and 586,857 shipments. Dell with a
22.4 market share came in at a close second followed by IBM (8.5 percent),
Cisco (3.2), and Inspur Electronics (2.7 percent). According to Gartner reports
that Inspurentered the top five thanks to a significant High-performance
Computing (HPC) deal that it won in its native China during the quarter.
“In
terms of server form factors, x86 blade servers declined by 3 percent in
shipments and 4.5 percent in revenue for the quarter,” the firm said. “The x86
rack-optimized form factor climbed 3.9 percent in shipments and 2.4 percent in
revenue for the second quarter.“
Server
shipments decline 5.9 percent in Q2 2013 weigh against to Q2 2012, with server
shipments reaching 550,537 units particularly in the European, Middle Eastern,
and African regions (EMEA). HP led the server market in this region, shipping 222,016
units and owning 40.30 percent of the market. Dell followed with 114,057
shipments as well as IBM (47,550), Fujitsu (24,325) and Cisco (14,484).
Regarding
the revenue during the same quarter, HP is still leading the pack with $1.045
billion USD, then IBM with the raking in $834.8 million USD followed by Dell ($434.9
million), Oracle ($193.5 million), and Fujitsu ($175.8 million) — revenue for
all others combined was $426.5 million USD. From the top five to show revenue growth,
Dell and Fujitsu remained the only two vendors. The EMEA market lacks the hyper
scale segment growth that other regions benefit from, Gartner said.
“In
the second quarter of 2013, x86 server revenue decreased 4.7 percent in EMEA,
while RISC/Itanium UNIX revenue fell 22.6 percent,” the firm said. “Revenue for
the ‘other’ CPU segment grew 44.3 percent. The RISC/Itanium UNIX segment
continued to suffer from migrations to alternative platforms as users sought
lower cost alternatives and more flexibility. The ‘other’ CPU category, which
is primarily driven by mainframes, saw a double-digit increase thanks to
platform refreshes. “
Adrian
O’Connell, research director at Gartner, said that weak enterprise demand,
combined with consolidation and platform migration, continued to dampen theEMEA
server market during Q2 2013. Recognized vendors like HP, Dell, and IBMwere
also gradually more challenged. These challenges are relatively-new vendors
such as Cisco and local OEMs like Huawei and the current worldwide PC market
leader Lenovo. ODMs selling directly to large end-users also posed as a problem
for the larger companies.
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