The past three months has seen the biggest growth in the server market since 2003, according to a new report.
Analyst firm IDC claimed revenue worldwide for servers had increased by 11% when compared to the second quarter of 2009, which as well as being the second consecutive quarter of year-on-year growth, was the best quarterly performance by the market in seven years.
On top of $10.9 billion (€8.6 billion) revenue, shipments also increased by 23.8% year-on-year, which was the fastest shipment growth for more than five years.
“The server market is at a crossroads,” said Matt Eastwood, group vice president of enterprise platforms at IDC.
He claimed there is a “wide-spread infrastructure refresh” happening throughout a number of industries at the moment, helping with this increase in shipments and revenues.
“While much of this refresh is occurring first in x86-based servers, IDC expects the recovery to extend to Unix and mainframe platforms in the second half of 2010,” he added. “That said, it is clear that a wave of migration is also occurring as customers broaden their deployment of x86-based servers to a wider range of workloads.”
HP topped the vendor list in the quarterly report, with a market share of 32.5% and a 26% revenue increase year-on-year, amounting to just over $3.5 billion.
IBM took second place with revenues of $3.2 billion (€2.5 billion), a 3.2% decrease from the second quarter of 2009, and Dell held onto third with revenues of $1.66 billion, a growth of 36.5% since last year.
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