Worldwide server shipments hit two million units, after
a year-on-year increase of nearly 13%, second quarter figures from
industry analyst Gartner have revealed.
But the figures show that worldwide server revenues have not
grown as sharply, rising by just 2.5% year-on-year to a total of
$12.4bn (£6.5bn) for the second quarter of 2006.
Gartner research director Jeffrey Hewitt, said, “The two server
categories that exhibited the greatest strengths were x86 and blade
servers.” These servers continued to be the systems of choice to
boost the front and middle tiers of web infrastructure.
He added, “RISC-Itanium Unix servers grew 1.8% in shipments for
the quarter but dropped a more significant 2.6% in revenue. This
segment continues to be hotly contested on a global basis, but
suffered from constrained revenue overall in the second
quarter.”
IBM still leads the worldwide server market, with a 29.2% market
share based on revenue, ahead of Hewlett-Packard with 27.3%.
Sun Microsystems is in third place, with 13.1% of the market
after a 13.7% year on year growth in revenues.
HP still tops the server shipments league with a 27.6% market
share, holding off second placed Dell after a 12.5% year on year
increase in shipments.
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