Value add
Market researcher Gartner has released its figures for the global server market in Q1 and they look a lot healthier than those for the PC market. Shipments grew by 8.5 percent year-on-year, but revenue jumped an impressive 17.3 percent.
"x86 servers forged ahead and grew 8.6 percent in units for the year and 17.5 percent in revenue. Following earlier trends, the x86-based server market provided an increase in average selling prices that pushed revenue higher than shipments, and this was the case in the first quarter for all regions," said Gartner veep Jeffrey Hewitt.
"RISC/Itanium Unix servers finally exited their slump and grew 5.2 percent in shipments and 20.7 percent in vendor revenue, compared with the same quarter last year. The ‘other' CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed a growth in vendor revenue of 19.6 percent."
Clearly the trend is towards higher value servers and this is reflected in the vendor figures. HP is still number one in terms of both volume and value, but in the latter category it's not far off losing the top spot to IBM.
Table 1
Worldwide: Server Vendor Revenue Estimates, 1Q11 (U.S. Dollars)
|
Company |
1Q11 Revenue |
1Q11 Market Share (%) |
1Q10 Revenue |
1Q10 Market Share (%) |
1Q10-1Q11 Growth (%) |
|
HP |
3,826,499,365 |
30.2 |
3,389,508,530 |
31.4 |
12.9 |
|
IBM |
3,761,762,079 |
29.7 |
3,052,091,123 |
28.3 |
23.3 |
|
Dell |
1,892,881,243 |
14.9 |
1,673,579,438 |
15.5 |
13.1 |
|
Oracle |
798,599,723 |
6.3 |
597,935,146 |
5.5 |
33.6 |
|
Fujitsu |
591,959,434 |
4.7 |
645,299,697 |
6.0 |
-8.3 |
|
Other Vendors |
1,798,809,376 |
14.2 |
1,440,384,216 |
13.3 |
24.9 |
|
Total |
12,670,511,219 |
100.0 |
10,798,798,151 |
100.0 |
17.3 |
Source: Gartner (May 2011)
Table 2
Worldwide: Server Vendor Shipments Estimates, 1Q11 (Units)
|
Company |
1Q11 Shipments |
1Q11 Market Share (%) |
1Q10 Shipments |
1Q10 Market Share (%) |
1Q10-1Q11 Growth (%) |
|
HP |
687,502 |
29.8 |
672,094 |
31.6 |
2.3 |
|
Dell |
508,650 |
22.0 |
510,452 |
24.0 |
-0.4 |
|
IBM |
272,238 |
11.8 |
268,010 |
12.6 |
1.6 |
|
Fujitsu |
76,648 |
3.3 |
77,613 |
3.6 |
-1.2 |
|
Oracle |
36,795 |
1.6 |
42,528 |
2.0 |
-13.5 |
|
Other Vendors |
725,654 |
31.4 |
556,231 |
26.2 |
30.5 |
|
Total |
2,307,486 |
100.0 |
2,126,928 |
100.0 |
8.5 |
Source: Gartner (May 2011)
