Gartner: Three quarterly global server shipments grow 7.2%

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of November 29, the U.S. market research firm Gartner reported in Monday that the third quarter of this year, global server shipments grew 7.2% Year-on-year, revenue rose 5.2%. "Globally, growth was seen in the third quarter of 2011. But in terms of region, there are great differences. Jeffrey Huit Jeffrey Hewitt, a Gartner research vice president, said, "there is an increase in server shipments and revenue across all regions, with the only exception being a 4.9% per cent decline in Western Europe." Shipments in the Asia-Pacific region grew most rapidly, by up to 23.9% per cent. Income growth in Eastern Europe was the fastest, reaching 27.4%. "" The x86 server made progress in the third quarter, with shipments growing by 7.6% and revenue growing by 9.3%. Due to the higher base in the third quarter of 2010, the relative growth of x86 servers in parts of western Europe and the United States is not significant. risc/Global UNIX server shipments fell 6.8% per cent, but manufacturers ' revenues rose by 3.5% over a year earlier. Mainframe-dominated other CPUs dropped 6.9%.　　"said Hewitt. In addition to HP (Weibo) and Oracle (Weibo), the world's five largest server manufacturers in the third quarter of revenue growth. HP slipped 3.6% and Oracle was flat. IBM's third-quarter server revenue was over $3.8 billion trillion, with a share of 29.7%, the world's first but still down 0.5% per cent year-on-year.　　Most of IBM's revenue growth comes from power system products, and partly from the contribution of System X. HP slipped from its first slide to second, its share of 29.3%, down 2.7% from a year earlier. Dell remained third, but its share grew 0.2% per cent from a year earlier, to 14.7%. Oracle's share fell from 6.2% to 5.9%, still ranked fourth.　　Fujitsu's share and ranking have not changed, with 4.7% and fifth digits respectively. Specific to shipments, although HP shipments decreased by 3.1% per cent year-on-year, but still occupy the world's first. HP's decline stems mainly from the decline of the ProLiant brand. HP's global shipments share is 29.2%, down 3.1% from a year earlier. Dell ranked second, with a share of 21.8%, down 0.9% year-on-year. IBM ranked third, with a share of 12.1%, down 0.9%. Fujitsu ranked fourth, with its share falling from 3.4% to 3.3%.　　Lenovo ranked fifth, the share from 1.2% to 2%, its absolute number of growth particularly dazzling, year-on-year growth of 77%. In terms of server type, the blades ' shipments and revenues increased by 3.3% and 7.6% respectively in the third quarter. Rack-Optimized server shipments and revenues grew by 8.2% and 6.3% respectively. (Si yuan)