Global server market for five consecutive quarters year-on-year revenue decline

[YORK network server channel June 6 news] IDC released a quarterly server tracking the global quarter report, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/33721.html "> The first quarter of 2014 global server market revenue A decrease of 2.2% from the same period of the previous year to a total of 10.9 billion U.S. dollars. This is also the fifth consecutive quarter of a year-on-year contraction in server revenue in the global server market.

Q1 2014 server shipments rose 2.1% YoY, with a specific volume of 2.1 million units - not much improvement due mainly to the widespread adoption of infrastructure consolidation by all types of customers of all sizes Strategy, which greatly offset the demand for ultra-large-scale data center in product purchasing.

In the meantime, market demand for mid-range and high-end systems in the first quarter of 2014 showed a year-on-year decrease of 4.8% and 25.6% respectively. The reason why the performance of the medium and high-end markets are weak is mainly because some of these businesses have been adversely affected by the difficult transition of the technology update cycle.

Traditional client server workloads continue to drive investment flows to private cloud facilities, while urging traditional SMBs and enterprise customers to further implement deep mergers and automation mechanisms in their own environment. The result is a noticeable increase in the intensity of computing resources, a reduction in the number of global enterprise and service provider data centers, but the scale of single facilities is expanding.

Hewlett-Packard in the first quarter of 2014 continued to hold the share of 26.5% of the proportion of firmly grasp the global server revenue leader. Specifically, HP's quarter-2.0% decline in revenue this quarter due to the basic demand for x86 ProLiant servers remained stable, on the other hand from the continued weakness of the entire Itanium server products.

IBM ranked second with 19.1% revenue share in the quarter, but a serious diving of 25.4% compared to the first quarter of 2013. Demand for IBM x86 System x servers and System z mainframes has drastically declined from the previous year.

Dell ranked third with 18.0% of revenue share, while revenue for the quarter decreased 3.2% from the same period a year earlier.

Cisco, Fujitsu and Oracle followed three in the statistics, respectively, their share of revenues were 5.7%, 5.0% and 4.9% respectively. Cisco first quarter of this year revenue surged 37% compared with the same period last year, accounting for 1.6% of the global market share, and Oracle this quarter also achieved 1.9% year-on-year revenue increase.