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Server shipments grow

by on01 September 2015


Gartner's latest report warns of a slowing

Beancounters at Gartner have added up the numbers and divided by their shoe size and decided that server shipments have grown by eight per cent.

For the second quarter worldwide server shipments grew 8 per cent in comparison to last year and revenues increased 7.2 per cent.

Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner said that the second quarter slowed a bit due to currency exchange rate changes have started to show their impact by reducing relative spending power in regions like Western Europe.

"It is likely that in anticipation of further currency rate shifts that some organisations used their budgets earlier in the year rather than waiting until the third or fourth quarters when their purchasing power may be further reduced by these relative currency changes," he said..

"x86 server shipments increased 8.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2015 and revenues grew 9 per cent. RISC/Itanium Unix server shipments declined 18.7 per cent globally for the period, while RISC/Itanium revenue declined 9.7 per cent compared with the same quarter last year. The 'other' CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 7.8per cent," Hewitt said.

North America grew the most significantly in shipments with a 14.8 per cent increase. The region also posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 14.7 per cent for the period.

HP is still the number one server maker based on revenues with a 25.2 per cent market share. Lenovo experienced the largest increase in the second quarter of 2015 with 526.5 per cent growth in revenues. All of the top five global vendors had revenue increases for the second quarter of 2015 except IBM.

In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the second quarter of 2015 with an on-year shipment increase of 2.5 per cent. HP's worldwide server shipment share was 21.7 per cent, representing a 1.2pp drop in share from the same quarter in 2014.

Of the top five vendors in server shipments worldwide, all produced shipment increases except for Dell.

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