Overall, worldwide server revenues continue to rise. Research firm, IDC reported that in the second quarter this year (April to June) revenues climbed 11 percent and shipments increased 23.8 percent over last year’s figures.
Relaying the excitement, Matt Eastwood, IDC’s group vice president of Enterprise Platforms, says: “This is the fourth consecutive quarter of improving server market demand and the fastest quarterly server revenue growth IDC has reported in more than five years.”
IDC’s report indicates strong demand for x86-based HP ProLiant and IBM System X servers. HP’s quarterly server revenue was $3.5 billion ahead of IBM’s $3.2 billion. Dell had an excellent quarter that saw its server revenue increase 37 percent to land it in third spot overall in market share at 15.6% behind HP’s 32.5% and IBM’s 29.8%.
Sales and shipments of blade servers continue to make a huge impact as businesses capitalize on the space and power savings they offer. IDC said the blade market saw factory revenue grow 30.9% from last year to $1.5 billion, which accounts for 14% of the quarterly segment’s server market revenue.
Jed Scaramella, research manager, enterprise servers at IDC explained: “Blade adoption continued to gain momentum in the second quarter of 2010, as blades accounted for its largest portion of total server revenue since the form-factor came to market. Vendors continue to build out their blade offerings through enhanced virtualization, management, and I/O capabilities; customers are leveraging these technologies as part of converged systems that are a building block to future internal cloud infrastructures.”
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