With IBM server business, who does Lenovo provoke?

Recently, Lenovo announced that it has signed an agreement with IBM to acquire 2.3 billion U.S. dollars for IBM X86 Server hardware and related service maintenance business, tomorrow. Before that, Lenovo had purchased IBM's global PC and laptop business with a 2004 of 1.25 billion dollars.

"We have more than 14% market share in the global market of X86 servers, more than 22% of the market share in China, become the first in the Chinese market, the third place in the global market." "January 23, at the end of the, Lenovo Group's two-year spring Festival get-together, the company's CEO Yang said to media reporters.

Just one hours earlier, Lenovo announced an acquisition of IBM's x86 server business with about 2.3 billion dollars, including System X, BladeCenter and Flex system blades and switches, x86 flex integration Systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers, as well as related software, networks and maintenance. Of the $2.3 billion trillion, some 2 billion dollars will be paid in cash and the balance in Lenovo shares.

The IBM server business is the focus of the media for many years, although today is only part of IBM's business, but this step finally Lenovo is a step forward.

So for the server market, Lenovo is the biggest threat to the acquisition of who is going to hit the job, this is a topic of concern.

Gartner's second-quarter server market data showed total global sales of 2.49 million, up 1.2% per cent year-on-year. Among them, HP server global shipments increased by more than 5%, market share rose to 26.9%, ranked first. Dell, IBM, respectively, 22%, 9% of the market share of the second and third.

In the Chinese market, according to Gartner second-quarter data showed that domestic manufacturers Lenovo, Huawei, Wave, Shuguang 4 market share reached 45.44%,IBM, HP, DELL3 international manufacturers accounted for 48.13%.

As we all know, the Lenovo won the IBM x86 server, belonging to the low-end market. IBM will retain its high-end market System Z mainframe (System z mainframes), power BAE, storage systems, flex servers based on power architecture, and pureapplication application platforms and Puredata devices.

Therefore, the author and a number of industry peers in the view that Lenovo's action on the Wave, Dawn, Huawei and other brand servers have a great threat, and the wave, Dawn and other server manufacturers are likely, such as personal PC Field founder, same side gradually slipped.

"We can use the IBM brand for five years, and IBM is committed to the five-year period, the vast majority of their internal use and the server to sell outside, will be our acquisition of the business of the products produced." "said Yang.

Lenovo has the IBM server brand, technology, and its current in the field of PC brand advantages, this wave, Shuguang and other domestic server manufacturers are bound to cause great threat and pressure. So the trend remains, no surprises, the wave, the dawn and other domestic server manufacturers may have to enter the countdown, and HP, Dell, IBM will remain in the high-end market for quite a long time competitive.