Worldwide server shipments for the first quarter of 2007
increased 6% over
the same quarter last year, while server
revenue for the same period climbed 4.5%, according to analyst
firm Gartner.
It said worldwide server revenues totalled £6.78bn, as
worldwide server shipments reached just over 2.1 million units.
"x86 servers had been constrained in the fourth quarter of 2006
due to lengthening sales cycles, following a period of particularly
rapid technology transition,” said Gartner analyst Jeffrey
Hewitt.
“As we had predicted, this constraint was less about
virtualisation and was only a temporary issue, as evidenced by the
fact that this part of the market returned to growth in the first
quarter.”
Hewitt said Risc-Itanium Unix servers fell 15.5% in shipments
for the quarter, and fell 1.5% in terms of revenue.
“The competition remains intense in this portion of the market
as it continues to face declines,” said Hewitt.
IBM increased its blade server shipments 12.7% and its blade
server revenue 15.5%, but it lost share to HP, which remained the
number one supplier in this market sector, said Gartner.
Overall, IBM, HP and Dell were the top three, in that order, in
terms of worldwide server revenue. But with overall shipments, HP,
Dell and IBM were the top three in order.
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