Worldwide server shipments grew by 7.2 per cent in the third quarter of 2011, while revenue increased 5.2 per cent to $12.3 billion, according to a report from research firm Gartner.
“All regions showed growth in both shipments and vendor revenue except for Western Europe which posted a 4.9 per cent decline in revenue for the period. Latin America grew most significantly in shipments with a 28.3 per cent increase. Eastern Europe posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 33 per cent for the period,” said Mr Jeffrey Hewitt, Research Vice-President at Gartner.
All of the top five global vendors had revenue increases for the third quarter of 2011 except HP, the report said. IBM took the lead in the worldwide server market (based on revenue) with over $3.8 billion in server vendor revenue for a total share of 29.7 per cent for the third quarter of 2011. In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the third quarter of 2011, in spite of a year-on-year shipment decline of 3.1 per cent for the quarter.
In terms of server form factors, blade servers rose 4.6 per cent in shipments and 13.5 per cent in revenue for the quarter, it said. The rack-optimised form factor climbed 8.5 per cent in shipments and 9.2 per cent in revenue for the third quarter.