Global server Sales reverse two consecutive quarterly decline

December 3 News, according to foreign media reports, according to the market research company IDC, the latest study reported that the third quarter of this year, the global server market sales revenue in the fifth consecutive quarter of the year-on-year decline, but there has been 2009 years of the first quarter-on-quarter growth. In the third quarter of this year, global server vendors sold 10.4 billion U.S. dollars, down 17% from a year earlier, but up 12% per cent from the second quarter of this year. The Quarter-on-quarter growth rate is the highest in four years. The recovery of low-end server market demand drives the sale of servers.　　However, server shipments are still down 15% from a year earlier.　　IBM and Hewlett-Packard continued to lead the server market in the third quarter, with a market share of 31.8% and 30.9% respectively. IDC official Matt Eastwood said IDC believes that platform migration has once again gained momentum in the market. Server deployments after a recession will create this technical agenda for the next business cycle in the data center.　　He added that the next few quarters would be important to identify winners and losers in the industry over the next few years. HP recently agreed to buy 3Com of network equipment manufacturers to enhance its server, storage and network services.　　The deal will also exacerbate HP's competition with thinking, as HP will gain a better foothold in China while gaining access to the network business that competes with Cisco's core routing and switching services. Author: Tianhong