In the first quarter of 2011, worldwide server shipments grew 8.5
percent year-on-year, while revenue increased 17.3 percent,
according to research firm Gartner.
“The first quarter continued a quarterly trend of
year-on-year growth in both shipments and vendor revenue,”
said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. “All
regions showed growth in both shipments and vendor revenue, with
the exception of Japan.”
"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," Hewitt said.
"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."
From the regional standpoint, Eastern Europe grew the most
significantly in shipments with a 21.1 percent increase. Eastern
Europe also posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 36.0
percent for the period.
All the top five global vendors except Fujitsu had revenue
increases for the first quarter of 2011. HP was the market leader,
based on worldwide server revenue. The company posted just over USD
3.8 billion in worldwide server vendor revenue for a total share of
30.2 percent for the first quarter of 2011. This share was down 1.2
percent year-on-year.
In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the first
quarter of 2011 with a year-on-year shipment increase of 2.3
percent for the quarter. This growth was driven by increases
produced from HP’s ProLiant brand. HP’s worldwide
server shipment share was 29.8 percent, representing a 1.8 percent
drop in share from the same quarter in 2010.
Of the top five vendors in server shipments worldwide, HP and IBM
posted year-on-year increases in units for the first quarter. In
terms of server form factors, x86 blade servers rose 6.1 percent in
shipments and 24.6 percent in revenue for the quarter, to produce
the highest revenue growth by form factor. The rack-optimized form
factor had the highest shipment growth at 11.2 percent and climbed
19.6 percent in revenue for the first
quarter.
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