Gartner announces second-quarter global server market data

Absrtact: A few days ago, Gartner, the survey company, released the second quarter global server market data, which showed that the global server market continued to weaken, the only regional bright spot is the Asia-Pacific. Global market Competition Pattern adjustment is obvious, IBM, HP share shrink exceed anticipate, Dell share

A few days ago, the survey company Gartner published the second quarter of the global server market data, the results show that the global server market continues to weaken, the only regional bright spot is the Asia-Pacific. The global market competition pattern adjustment is obvious, IBM, HP share shrink exceed anticipate, Dell share is steady rise, wave volume is ranked fifth, this is the first time that Chinese manufacturer enters global top five.

Global server shipments grew 4% per cent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2013, with revenues down 3.8% from a year earlier, according to Gartner. Jeffrey Hewitt, vice president of Gartner Research, said: "U.S. shipments have increased by 1.9%, but revenues have fallen by 5.1%, and the only real regional bright spot in the global market is the Asia-Pacific region, where revenues and shipments have grown by 10% and 27% per cent year-on-year, and China is the core driver of growth in the Asia- “

In the competitive pattern, IBM and HP, which traditionally occupy the leading position, have both declined revenue and shipments. IBM revenue, shipments were down 9.7% year-on-year, 8%;hp down 17.5%, 13.6%, shipments share than last year, the same period decreased by 4.8%.

It is noteworthy that Chinese manufacturers have entered the top five of the global market for the first time this quarter. In the current quarter, the volume of shipments increased 211.8%, the market share increased twice times, ranked fifth in the world, the wave of shipments of the astonishing growth of the main performance in the rack-type server.

In Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) markets, shipments in the quarter were more than 550,000, down 5.9% from a year earlier, with a total revenue of 3.1 billion dollars, down 4.6%. Adrian O ' Connell, Gartner's research director, said the EMEA market has been reducing shipments for the 7th consecutive quarter, with a 8th consecutive quarterly revenue reduction, which will continue to add to the global server market's reliance on the Asia-Pacific, especially the Chinese market. Server manufacturers should increase investment in the mainland market, from this quarter of the market pattern, the traditional global manufacturers in the Chinese market share of the decline faster, and the wave and other local enterprises growth alarming, this trend is likely to continue.