IDC: Four quarterly global server revenue growth 15.3%

A Monday report by the US market research firm IDC reported that IBM regained its first place in the global server market in the fourth quarter of 2010 and throughout the year, with the strong performance of the mainframe business and the overall health of the x86 system, according to the midday News of March 1 in Beijing. The IDC report confirms the data from Gartner's February 24 release.　　In Gartner's report, IBM became the world's highest-earning server manufacturer, followed by HP and Dell. In addition, IBM's strong performance also reflects the overall trend of the server market. IDC analysts said the market continued to recover after the global recession in late 2008 and 2009.　　In the third quarter, the global server market realized revenue of 15 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 15.3%, a 3-year high quarterly income record, and has been the fourth consecutive quarter to achieve year-on-year income growth. IDC's data showed that global server shipments grew 6.1% in the fourth quarter to 2.1 million units. Annual server revenue and shipments increased by 11.4% and 15.3% respectively.　　Matt Eastwood, vice president of IDC Enterprise Platform Group, said Matt Ister systems were an important factor in the continued recovery of the market, indicating that companies were still looking for a diverse system platform to supply data centers. "At the same time, data centers across large and small organizations around the world are optimizing to support virtualization, automation, consolidation, workload optimization systems, and cloud computing strategies." "For end users, the current choice of it is more than ever, and many of them offer the best price/performance for data centers, and almost all IT infrastructure solutions have a server platform in their core areas," says Mr. Eastwood. "The need for heterogeneous data centers is also reflected in IBM's numbers." In the quarter, IBM's server revenue grew 21.9% per cent year-on-year, accounting for 37.4% of the global server market.　　The demand for BAE Z Mainframe is strong, and the demand for the x86 System x server continues to increase. "System Z's significant revenue growth in the quarter reflects the depth of IBM's investment in rebuilding the data center platform." Jean Bozman, vice president of research at IDC Enterprise Platform Group, said that "pent-up demand has been the main driver of mainframe revenue growth in 2009 and 2010, after the Bezman of the high-end server market, Shows the need for performance improvement and mainframe customer support for this hybrid system calculation. "IBM launched the new mainframe system Zenterprise last July, designed for central management points in enterprise data centers, allowing other systems to take advantage of mainframes." After Gartner's data was released, IBM executives had pointed out that the fourth quarter was zenterprise and the new Power7 serverThe first full quarter after the listing.　　IBM said mainframe revenue grew 69% in the fourth quarter and many Power7 systems were sold out. IDC analysts said that System Z's revenue growth reached 69.1%, the fastest-growing mainframe in IBM's history. Servers that use IBM's Z/OS operating system account for 11.3% of all server revenue in the quarter.　　In addition, System Z is the only platform for revenue growth in the fourth quarter, outside of Windows and Linux. As IBM's number one competitor in the server market, HP's global server revenue share was 29.9%, followed by Dell (12.6%), according to IDC.　　Both Oracle and Fujitsu have seen their revenues fall year-on-year.　　All year round, IBM and HP tied, IBM's global revenue share of 31.9%, HP for 31.8%. HP is the number-one manufacturer of the x86 market, with a share of 38.5%, followed by Dell, with a share of 21.1%,IBM in the third, only 19%. X86 server revenue grew 21.4% and shipments grew by 6.7% in the quarter. The x86 system accounts for about 59.7% of all server revenue in the fourth quarter.　　Throughout the year, x86 server revenue grew 28.7% and shipments grew 16.6%. HP also has a leading position in the blade server market, with a revenue share of 53.4% per cent in the sector. IBM is 28.1%. Overall, blade server revenue rose 12.6% in the fourth quarter. Overall, blade servers accounted for 13.4% of global server revenue in the quarter. (Ding Macro)