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Gartner: Worldwide server revenue grew 7.5% in Q3 2015

world-techAccording to a research by Gartner, during the third quarter of 2015, worldwide server shipments grew 9.2 percent from the same period in 2014, while vendor revenue increased 7.5 percent year over year.

“The third quarter of 2015 produced growth on a global level with mixed results by region,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, Research Vice President, Gartner. “All regions showed growth in both shipments and vendor revenue, except for Eastern Europe, Japan and Latin America, which posted revenue declines of 5.8 percent, 11.7 percent and 24.2 percent, respectively, for the period. Currency exchange rates are one of the main reasons for the disparity in regional server market performance.”

From the regional standpoint, Asia/Pacific grew the most in shipments, with a 23.8 percent increase. The region also posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 25.4 percent for the period.

According to the report, HP continued to lead the worldwide server market based on revenue. The company posted just over $3.7 billion in server vendor revenue for a total market share of 27.3 percent for the third quarter of 2015.

Gartner’s findings show that all of the top five global vendors had revenue increases for the third quarter of 2015, except for IBM with a decline of 42.8 percent. IBM’s decline is due primarily to its sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo. Beyond that, IBM’s server revenue fell 3.1 percent for the RISC segment, but grew 15 percent for mainframes to post a 5.1 percent total growth in the third quarter for the server businesses that it retained.

Table 1
Worldwide Server Vendor Revenue Estimates, Q3 2015 (US$s)

Company 3Q15

Revenue

3Q15 Market Share (%) 3Q14

Revenue

3Q14 Market Share (%) 3Q15-3Q14 Growth (%)
HP 3,682,417,477 27.3 3,374,559,864 26.9 9.1
Dell 2,419,231,403 17.9 2,219,989,943 17.7 9.0
IBM 1,327,761,197 9.8 2,322,409,499 18.5 -42.8
Lenovo 1,065,664,119 7.9 165,166,098 1.3 545.2
Cisco 885,600,000 6.6 783,760,000 6.2 13.0
Others 4,120,053,348 30.5 3,690,687,782 29.4 11.6
Total Market 13,500,727,544 100.0 12,556,573,186 100.0 7.5

Source: Gartner (December 2015)

In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the third quarter of 2015 with a year-over-year shipment increase of 7.7 percent. HP’s worldwide server shipment market share was 22.2 percent, virtually the same share as in the third quarter of 2014.

All of the top five vendors in server shipments worldwide produced shipment increases in the third quarter of 2015, with Lenovo recording the largest growth of 183.2 percent.

Table 2
Worldwide: Server Vendor Shipments Estimates, Q3 2015 (Units)

Company 3Q15

Shipments

3Q15 Market Share (%) 3Q14

Shipments

3Q14 Market Share (%) 3Q15-3Q14 Growth (%)
HP 613,101 22.2 569,426 22.5 7.7
Dell 501,262 18.1 490,752 19.4 2.1
Lenovo 242,005 8.8 85,443 3.4 183.2
Huawei 134,163 4.9 93,421 3.7 43.6
Inspur 99,417 3.6 91,244 3.6 9.0
Others 1,172,725 42.4 1,200,592 47.4 -2.3
Total Market 2,762,672 100.0 2,530,878 100.0 9.2

Source: Gartner (December 2015)

“x86 servers managed to produce an increase with growth of 9.2 percent in shipments and 9.7 percent in revenue year over year,” said Hewitt. “RISC/Itanium Unix server revenue declined 11.5 percent in the third quarter, while shipments grew 1.1 percent. The ‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 3.5 percent in terms of revenue.”

 

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