New characteristics of China's server market in 2014

"Tenkine Server channel July 1 News" according to Gartner data, 3721.html ">2014 in the first quarter of the year, global server shipments of 2.3 million units, the year-on-year increase of only 1.4%." China's server market continues to be robust, shipments of 427,000 units, an increase of 29% year-on-year, become the global server market growth of the biggest power. For the server manufacturers, the Chinese market is increasingly attractive.

In the first quarter of the Chinese server market, the share of U.S. manufacturers again fell collectively, IBM, HP, Dell's market share from the same period in 2013 to 49% to 38%, of which the decline of IBM X server is up to 25%. Wave, Huawei, Lenovo and other domestic server manufacturers share rapid increase, local enterprises in almost all areas occupy advantages. As early as a few years ago, the share of the domestic camp in the 50% demarcation line, the first quarter of 2014, finally crossed the line.

Two-way server is still the market shipments and revenue of the main body, in the overall market accounted for 80%, an increase of 34%, far above the market average level. Among them, 2U two-way rack server occupies 49% of the dual market share, is the main component of the two-way product segment, but also an important component of the overall market, so this product segment has become the most densely-packed areas of product layout.

Four-way server growth slowed in the quarter, with shipments growing 2% per cent year-on-year. From the competitive landscape, IBM still maintains a large inertia, shipments occupy the lead, the Wave, Dell and HP market share similar, are around 16%, Huawei share of 11%, Lenovo and the dawn share less than 5%.

With the development of cloud computing, data center integration and other emerging applications, the four-way and above server market will bring the market growth space. In the virtualization, Cloud computing mode, four or more servers in the performance, energy consumption, management, scalability, cost and other aspects than the single and dual server has a clear advantage, more industry customers began to favor the use of multiple-server based cloud computing solutions.

Eight server market, the volume of shipments this quarter doubled. Eight server is the main source of profit for the market, the average price is 14 times times the overall market, more tests are manufacturers in the overall solution capacity, industrial resources integration strength.

High-density server shipments in the quarter grew 143% year-on-year, with revenue growing 165% per cent year-on-year. High-density server is a specialized for the Internet operators of the product categories, the Internet industry procurement of the popularity of a high density server can be spied on. The increasing competition strength in the Internet is an important reason for the increase of local manufacturers ' share. Internet operators have become the main force affecting China's server market.

Blade servers are still disappointing in the quarter. Blade server to become the only shipments, revenue both fell market, year-on-year decline of 19% and 6%, in the overall market shipments accounted for the ratio has fallen to 8.1%, or even less than the tower server, the latter's shipments accounted for the ratio of 9.5%. Even in the global market, blade server growth is not optimistic, the global x86 blade server shipments fell 3.9% this quarter.

The reduction of procurement in the telecom industry is an important reason for the decline of blade server shipments, due to the large concentration of business in recent years, 4G network upgrade did not bring the expected industry procurement explosion. In addition, government, finance and other government financial policies, procurement growth has slowed sharply, and these industries are blade server important industry market.

In the traditional industry market is blocked at the same time, the face of the fastest growing, the largest Internet industry, blade server because of high prices, technology closures, harsh environmental requirements, etc., has been unable to compete with high-density servers, machine cabinets and other product forms, and was rejected.

In short, through the first quarter of 2014 data on the server market, we can see that the domestic server market in both foreign and domestic positions of the two camps reversed. and the product structure of the server market also changes, the two road steady development, four road and above growth potential, high-density servers into internet manufacturers darling, Blade server is declining.