IDC: HP surpassed IBM to become the world's largest server manufacturer

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of August 28, the United States market research company IDC Tuesday report showed that, as IBM's sales fell 10%, HP recaptured the world's largest server manufacturers of the throne. In the week before the data came out, Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard CEO Whitman, just told analysts that the company's server sales rose sharply in the last quarter, partly because of the uncertainty associated with the 2.3 billion dollar takeover of IBM's low-end server business. The US Foreign Investment Commission just approved the deal earlier this month. "We have actively exploited our customers ' uncertain feelings about IBM and Lenovo transactions. "In the process of competing with IBM for customers, our winning rate has significantly increased," Whitman said. IDC's data showed that HP's global server sales were 3.2 billion U.S. dollars in the second quarter, with a global market share of 25.4%. IBM ranked second in 23.6%. HP's year-on-year growth 4%,IBM fell 10.2%. Dell ranked third with a 16.6% per cent share, with Oracle and Cisco tying fourth in 6%. "As the systems deployed after the financial crisis are phased out and replaced, the server market is entering a cyclical update cycle." "He expects the cycle to last until 2015," said Matt Eastwood, general manager of IDC's corporate platform, Matt Ister. IDC's data covers a variety of servers. HP still dominates the low-end x86 server and blade server market. IBM remains the leader in the x86 high-end server market, with a revenue share of 69.1% per cent. (Ding Macro)