Second quarter global server market

Market research firm IDC released a report on Wednesday saying that computer server sales in the second quarter of this year increased by 11% to 10.9 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase in two consecutive quarters, and the server market has grown fastest since 2003.

According to the report, server shipments increased by 23.8% year-on-year, slightly higher than the 23% increase in the first quarter, and it was the fastest-growing quarter in five years.

The sales of low-end servers increased by 31.7%, which increased for three consecutive quarters; the revenue of mid-range servers increased by 15.6% year-on-year, which was the first increase in the past nine quarters; but the revenue of high-end server servers fell by 27.3% year-on-year. Quarterly decline.

Among the mainstream vendors, Hewlett-Packard has the highest share of 32.5%, due to strong demand for its x86 ProLiant servers, share growth of nearly 4 percentage points; IBM ranked second, with a market share of 29.8%; Dell ranked third, driven by strong corporate customer demand , Its sales and market share both increased; Oracle was ranked fourth, sales and market share fell; Fujitsu ranked fifth, the market share of 3.4%, sales growth of 8%.

Sales of x86 servers continued to grow, rising by 35.3% in the second quarter to US$7 billion.