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Date:29th Nov 2011
Server shipments in 3Q11 grew 7.2% y-o-y
Gartner, Inc has reported that worldwide server shipments
in the third quarter of 2011 grew 7.2 percent year-on-year,
while revenue increased 5.2 percent year-on-year.
"The third quarter of 2011 produced growth on a global
level but there was some significant variation in growth
by region," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president
at Gartner. "All regions showed growth in both shipments
and vendor revenue except for Western Europe which posted
a 4.9 percent decline in revenue for the period. Asia/Pacific
grew the most significantly in shipments with a 23.9 percent
increase. Eastern Europe posted the highest vendor revenue
growth at 27.4 percent for the period."
"X86 servers forged ahead and grew 7.6 percent in
units and 9.3 percent in revenue. Some regions like Western
Europe and the United States did not produce as much relative
x86-based server growth because of comparatively stronger
third quarter results in 2010. RISC/Itanium Worldwide Unix
server shipments declined 6.8 percent, but vendor revenue
increased 3.5 percent compared to the same quarter last
year. The 'other' CPU category, which is primarily mainframes,
showed a decline of 6.9 percent," Mr Hewitt said.
All of the top five global vendors had revenue increases
for the third quarter of 2011 except HP and Oracle. HP declined
3.6 percent year-on-year and Oracle achieved flat growth.
IBM took the lead in the worldwide server market based on
revenue (see Table 1) - the company posted just over $3.8
billion in server vendor revenue for a total share of 29.7
percent for the third quarter of 2011. This share was down
0.5 percent year-on-year. Most of IBM's revenue growth came
from its Power Systems line with some contribution by System
X as well.
Table 1
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Company
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3Q11
Revenue
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3Q11 Market Share (%)
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3Q10
Revenue
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3Q10 Market Share (%)
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3Q10-3Q11 Growth (%)
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IBM
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3,846,807,802
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29.7
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3,717,419,666
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30.2
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3.5
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HP
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3,802,440,047
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29.3
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3,942,615,230
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32.0
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-3.6
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Dell
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1,903,221,687
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14.7
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1,789,631,319
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14.5
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6.3
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Oracle
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763,610,285
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5.9
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763,964,420
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6.2
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0.0
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Fujitsu
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603,044,868
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4.7
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582,244,543
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4.7
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3.6
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Other Vendors
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2,048,599,229
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15.8
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1,533,530,740
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12.4
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33.6
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Total
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12,967,723,917
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100.0
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12,329,405,918
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100.0
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5.2
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Source: Gartner (November 2011)
According to Gartner, in server shipments, HP remained
the worldwide leader in the third quarter of 2011 (see Table
2) in spite of a year-on-year shipment decline of 3.1 percent
for the quarter. This decline was driven primarily by drops
in HP's ProLiant brand. HP's worldwide server shipment share
was 29.2 percent representing a 3.1 percent drop in share
from the same quarter in 2010.
In terms of server form factors, blade servers rose 3.3
percent in shipments and 7.6 percent in revenue for the
quarter. The rack-optimised form factor climbed 8.2 percent
in shipments and 6.3 percent in revenue for the third quarter
of 2011.
Table 2
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Company
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3Q11
Shipment
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3Q11 Market Share (%)
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3Q10
Shipment
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3Q10 Market Share (%)
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3Q10-3Q11 Growth (%)
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HP
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693,265
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29.2
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715,481
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32.3
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-3.1
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Dell
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517,867
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21.8
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501,593
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22.7
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3.2
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IBM
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287,507
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12.1
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287,574
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13.0
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0.0
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Fujitsu
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79,072
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3.3
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75,479
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3.4
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4.8
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Lenovo
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46,638
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2.0
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26,346
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1.2
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77.0
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Other Vendors
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748,633
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31.5
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607,641
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27.4
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23.2
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Total
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2,372,982
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100.0
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2,214,115
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100.0
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7.2
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Source: Gartner (November 2011)
Additional information is available to subscribers of Gartner's
Servers Quarterly Statistics Worldwide program. This program
provides worldwide market size and share data by vendor
revenue and unit shipments. Segments include: region, vendor,
vendor brand, sub brand, CPU type, CPU group, Max CPU, platform,
price band, operating systems and distribution channels.
Gartner analysts will provide additional analysis on server
trends further at the 30th Annual Gartner Data Center Conference,
December 5-8 in Las Vegas. This event delivers a wealth
of strategic guidance and tactical recommendations on the
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For more information visit: www.gartner.com
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