Gartner: Two quarterly global server shipments rose 8%

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time August 27 morning, the U.S. market research company Gartner reported in Friday, the second quarter of this year, global server shipments grew 8% year-on-year, revenue growth of 19.5%. Jeffrey Hewitt, vice president of Gartner Research, said: "The Jeffrey Huit of the second quarter was strong because the recovery that began in 2010 is still continuing." Although still below the pre-crisis level, shipments and revenues in all regions have risen year-on-year. "The second quarter x86 server is still leading, shipments increased 8.4% year-on-year, revenue growth 17.7%." risc/Itanium UNIX server shipments decreased by 8.5%, but revenue grew 4.3%.　　Other CPU-type servers (mainly mainframes) show strong growth of 48.8%. From the region, the Asia-Pacific region shipments increased the largest year-on-year, to 25.6%.　　Japan has the largest market income growth of 59.5%. The top 5 of the world's top server manufacturers have seen their second-quarter earnings grow. HP still topped the list, earning a 29.8% per cent share of 3.9 billion dollars, but its share fell 2.2% per cent year-on-year. IBM ranked second with a market share of 28.7%, up 1.1% from a year earlier.　　The second were Dell (14.2%), Oracle (7.1%) and Fujitsu (6.3%). In terms of shipments, Hewlett-Packard still ranked first in the market in the second quarter, to achieve 720,000 shipments, an increase of 11.7% per cent, a share of 30.8%, and a 1% increase over the same period last year. The second is Dell (21.9%), IBM (11.7%), Fujitsu (3.1%) and Lenovo (1.6%). Of the world's top 5 manufacturers, only Dell's shipments fell year-on-year. (Si yuan)