Robust growth for server revenues

Q2 server shipments grew 8% y-o-y year while revenue increased 7.2% from Q1 2014, says Gartner.

“x86 server shipments increased 8.3% in the second quarter of 2015 and revenue grew 9 percent,” says Gartner’s Jeffrey Hewitt, “RISC/Itanium Unix server shipments declined 18.7% globally for the period, while RISC/Itanium revenue declined 9.7% compared with the same quarter last year. The ‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 7.8%.”

Regionally, the US grew most with a 14.8% increase. The region also posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 14.7% for the period.

HP maintained its No. 1 ranking in the worldwide server market based on revenue with a 25.2% market share.

Lenovo had the largest increase in Q2 with 526.5% growth in revenue.

All of the top five global vendors had revenue increases for the second quarter of 2015 except IBM.

The top five Q2 2015 vendors in terms of revenue were with their % market share were::

HP 3,428,089,692 – 25.2%

Dell 2,361,553,746. – 17.4%

IBM. 1,869,261,145. – 13.7%

Lenovo. 949,775,89 – 7.0%

Cisco 866,700,000. – 6.4%

Others. 4,133,875,723. 30.4

The leaders in In terms of unit shipments with their market share were:

HP. 583,790. 21.7%

Dell. 485,745. 18.0%

Lenovo. 222,206. 8.3%

Huawei. 122,565. 4.6%

Cisco. 82,473. 3.1%

Others. 1,194,464. 44.4%

Total Market. 2,691,244

david manners

from News http://ift.tt/1MSh97E
via Yuichun