The worldwide server market saw a year-on-year revenue slump of 3.6% in the first quarter of 2016 to $12.4 billion, after a winning streak of seven quarters of growth, IDC said Wednesday.
The slowdown in the server market in the first quarter has not affected key players uniformly. Hewlett Packard Enterprise retained its top position, with revenue of $3.3 billion and a 26.7% share of market revenue, after a year-on-year growth of 3.5%. Dell and IBM retained their number two and three spots respectively, but with year-on-year decline in revenue.
While Dell’s revenue dropped 1.8% to nearly $2.3 billion for a 18.3% market share, IBM saw its revenue drop by a whopping 33% year-on-year to $1.1 billion as it had a triple-digit growth for its z Systems mainframes in the year-ago quarter, after a spike from a system upgrade. Lenovo and Cisco tied for the fourth and fifth position.
Volume system revenue increased 1.8% in the quarter to $9.8 billion while revenue from midrange systems increased 8.3% in the quarter to $1.1 billion. Demand for high-end systems had a year-over-year revenue decline of 33.4% to $1.4 billion, mainly on account of the surge in demand for IBM mainframes last year, IDC said.
The Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, had the highest year-on-year revenue growth of 10.2% in the quarter. China was a strong contributor to that performance with 14.9% year-on-year revenue growth to $1.9 billion. The only other region that saw positive server revenue growth in the quarter was Western Europe at 1.7%, IDC said.
Intel dominates the server processor market with a 99.2% share of server chips in 2015. But ARM server chips will starting gaining traction next year, according to a research note from IDC this week.
IDG News Service
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