2014 Q1 Huawei and wave server shipments are growing fast

"Tenkine Server channel June 6 News" according to Gartner Statistics, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/33721.html "in the first quarter of >2014 year, global server shipments rose 1.4 %, but server revenues have fallen 4.1% from the previous year. In addition to the Asia-Pacific region, the other regional markets are in the volume of shipments or revenue in different degrees of contraction. As a solo-show growth region, Asia-Pacific market revenue rose 3.3% year-on-year, shipments were significantly increased by 18%.

The x86 server achieved a 1.7% year-on-year increase in production, and the revenue figure increased by 2.8%. In the first quarter of 2014, x86 server revenue grew 3.4% year-on-year, while RISC Itanium UNIX server revenue fell 3.4%, while other CPU classes increased revenue by 8.6%.

RISC Itanium UNIX servers continued to be cold around the world in the first quarter of 2014-shipments were down by 19.9% and vendor revenues were down 16.9% from a year earlier. And in other CPU classes, that is, mainframe-oriented devices, the revenue level is significantly higher than the previous year diving 37.6%. The x86 blade server has fallen 3.9% per cent year-on-year in shipments, but this quarter's revenue is up 5.2% from a year earlier. In the first quarter of 2014, rack-optimized equipment increased by 1.4% in terms of shipments, and revenue rose by 1.7%.

HP is leading the global server market in revenue in the first quarter of 2014. The company made a total of 2.9 billion dollars in revenue this quarter, accounting for 25.5% of global revenue. But that percentage shrank by 2.3% compared with the first quarter of 2013. Cisco is the only top five server vendors to achieve revenue growth in the first quarter of this year, compared with the first quarter of 2013, the revenue rose 37%.

In terms of server shipments, Hewlett-Packard also maintained a global lead in the first quarter of 2014, but its shipments were shrinking by 7.9% compared with the same period in 2013. Hewlett-Packard accounted for 22.6% of the overall global share of shipments, followed by Dell, which accounts for 19.7%. Of the top five manufacturers of global shipments, only Huawei and wave electronics achieved shipments in the first quarter of 2014, with growth of 61% and 288.7% respectively. This is also the first time that wave Electronics has ranked among the top five of global server shipments.

In the first quarter of 2014, HP, despite a small decline in server shipments, still achieved a whopping 5.1% per cent growth in its revenue share. This is due to HP's own improvement in operational efficiency and, on the other hand, its rivals ' embarrassing situation. The second-ranked IBM continues to be plagued by a weak product cycle, while its 8.7% contraction also stems from the slump in the entire x86 business market. Dell, the third-most-ranked company, failed to reproduce its strong and dazzling performance in the first quarter of 2013.