GARTNER:09 Annual Asia-Pacific server shipments down 3.8%

On March 3, Gartner said, due to the economic environment, 2009 Asia-Pacific server shipments fell by 3.8%, compared with 2008, the supplier's income fell by 6.2%.　　However, in the fourth quarter of 2009, server shipments in the Asia-Pacific region increased by 19.6% compared with 2008, while supplier revenues grew by 9.1% per cent year-on-year. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the total number of servers in the Asia-Pacific region was 417,531, while the supplier revenue reached 2.07 billion dollars.　　The Asia-Pacific region has become the fastest growing server market, driven by increased shipments from the X86 server market. In the fourth quarter of 2009, income growth in Australia and New Zealand rose to 21.4%, compared with a year earlier, to 11.2% in Greater China and 7% for ASEAN.　　South Korea and India have been slow to recover, with a negative growth rate of 4.7% and 0.8%, respectively. "In the Greater China region, Hong Kong and Taiwan grew strongly in the fourth quarter due to the resumption of business confidence," said Erica Gadjuli, Gartner's chief research analyst. Similarly, server revenues in Australia and Singapore rebounded in the fourth quarter as the public sector was actively involved in IT spending. Server consolidation in major areas such as financial services and telecommunications continues to be a key driver of China's IT spending. "The X86 server market is the only one that has a year-on-year growth in shipments and revenues of 21.8% and 24%, respectively." x86 server market revenue accounted for 53.1% of total market income in the fourth quarter of 2009, a notable increase compared with 46.7% in the fourth quarter of 2008. Dual-slot servers still occupy the status of hot servers in the fourth quarter, with a single slot server showing positive year-on-year growth after 5 consecutive quarters of weakness, indicating signs of recovery in the SME market.　　Conversely, the 2009 Asia Pacific risc/itanium UNIX server platform grew less than 2008 years, even if continuous quarterly growth remained in positive growth. The 2009 blade shipments (including x86 blades and risc/ia-64 blades) grew by 24% and revenue increased by 44% compared with the same period in 2008.　　HP maintained its leadership position in the blade market with a 44.6% market share, followed by IBM with a market share of 29.5%. As shown in table I and table two, IBM became the Asia-Pacific server revenue champion with 40.5% of the market share, and Hewlett-Packard ranked second in total shipments of 30.6% per cent. Except for Sun Microsystems, all the major server vendors have grown year-on-year last year. Both HP and Dell are earning double-digit growth, mainly benefiting from strong demand for the X86 server market. 2009-Year Asia-Pacific server market at a glance affected by the challenging economic environment, 2009 Asia-Pacific server shipments fell 3.8%, compared with 2008, the supplier's income decreased by 6.2%.　　2009 Asia-Pacific total server shipments of 1.4 million units, revenue of 7.1 billion U.S. dollars. In the first half of 2009, revenue from the Risc/itanium UNIX platform was the most affected by the company's control of rising costs, down 12% from 2008. In 2009, the Asia-Pacific blade server revenue grew by 9.8% and shipments grew by 8.9%.　　Throughout 2009, HP continued to top the blade server market with 43.5% shipments, while IBM ranked second in 34.8%. (Responsible editor: Shang) Author: Yin