The internet and high-end market become the key to the competition of domestic server manufacturers

"Tenkine Server channel April 2 News" Recently, IDC released the 2013 China x86 server market survey data. The results showed that the total sales of China's X86 servers in 2013 were 1474828, an increase of 12.6%, and a slowdown from 2012.

Dell overtook IBM as the number one, with IBM sales back to second place, with HP ranking third. In the domestic manufacturers, the wave of sales ranked first, and maintain a larger leading edge, Huawei and Lenovo were ranked second and third. Both in terms of shipments and sales, international manufacturers have been greatly challenged by domestic manufacturers. The market share of international manufacturers fell by 4% in 2013, and their share declined continuously, falling from 53% to 39% in the past four years.

The growth of domestic manufacturers not only stems from the growing advantages in the Internet industry, in the 2013, E-commerce, social networking, cloud computing and other Internet areas of rapid development, but also led to the rapid growth of server procurement. Internet industry 2013 Year sales growth of 48%, more than 470,000 units, has accounted for the market total of 32%. At present, the Internet industry procurement of customization trend is deepening, Lenovo and the wave of local server manufacturers are in the Internet customization to explore, such as the wave launched Smartrack machine cabinet server, Smartrack is a kind of tailor-made for the Internet and communications operators to develop customized solutions.

It is noteworthy that domestic manufacturers in the four-way and above the field market share is also climbing in the financial, telecommunications, power and other high-end industries market share of the expansion. 2013 Domestic x86 server supplier began to increase its high-end product development and promotion efforts, in the telecommunications, financial industry share in this year has been increased, driving sales fast climb. In the past, domestic manufacturers mainly occupy the low-end, foreign manufacturers occupy high-end market pattern is changing.

With the release of the Intel Xeon E7 v2, the new x86 multiple servers will be able to compete with RISC architectures in key business applications, regardless of key technical metrics such as reliability, stability, and security. Many domestic server manufacturers began to take many high-end x86 server as the main push products, high-end server market presents both supply and demand, especially the four-way server is the focus of the vendors. Huawei, Lenovo, wave and other domestic server manufacturers launched the corresponding products. 2013 China x86 server market data show that 4-way server growth reached 58%, becoming the fastest-growing product shape of the year. 4 Road and above product segment sales accounted for 26.5%, the product unit price reached the x86 product average level of 2.8 times times.

IDC believes that although 2013 performance and a certain gap, but China's x86 server is still a huge demand and full of opportunities in the market, and from the fourth quarter of 2013 began to show rapid growth, in the quarter x86 server shipments year-on-year growth of 20.5%. In addition, in the cloud computing and large data and other emerging technology trends, the competition between manufacturers will be further white-hot, Lenovo and IBM integration, local manufacturers in the high-end market expansion, the collective rise of domestic manufacturers and so on Make 3721.html ">2014 year will be the industrial structure of a turbulent year, The Internet and high-end domain will become the server manufacturer competition two key words, the former is to enlarge the scale the crucial, the latter is maintains the profit the foundation, grasps these two domains to each server manufacturer is especially important.