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Date: 29th May 2011
Gartner: Worldwide server revenues grew
by 17.3% in 1st Q 2011
In the first quarter of 2011, worldwide server shipments
grew 8.5 percent year-on-year, while revenue increased 17.3
percent, according to Gartner, Inc.
"The first quarter continued a quarterly trend of
year-on-year growth in both shipments and vendor revenue,"
said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner.
"All regions showed growth in both shipments and vendor
revenue, with the exception of Japan."
"x86 servers forged ahead and grew 8.6 percent in
units for the year and 17.5 percent in revenue. Following
earlier trends, the x86-based server market provided an
increase in average selling prices that pushed revenue higher
than shipments, and this was the case in the first quarter
for all regions," Mr. Hewitt said. "RISC/Itanium
Unix servers finally exited their slump and grew 5.2 percent
in shipments and 20.7 percent in vendor revenue, compared
with the same quarter last year. The "other" CPU
category, which is primarily mainframes, showed a growth
in vendor revenue of 19.6 percent."
From the regional standpoint, Eastern Europe grew the most
significantly in shipments with a 21.1 percent increase.
Eastern Europe also posted the highest vendor revenue growth
at 36.0 percent for the period.
All the top five global vendors except Fujitsu had revenue
increases for the first quarter of 2011. HP was the market
leader, based on worldwide server revenue (see Table 1).
The company posted just over $3.8 billion in worldwide server
vendor revenue for a total share of 30.2 percent for the
first quarter of 2011. This share was down 1.2 percent year-on-year.
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Company
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1Q11
Revenue
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1Q11 Market Share (%)
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1Q10
Revenue
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1Q10 Market Share (%)
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1Q10-1Q11 Growth (%)
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HP
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3,826,499,365
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30.2
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3,389,508,530
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31.4
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12.9
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IBM
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3,761,762,079
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29.7
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3,052,091,123
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28.3
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23.3
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Dell
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1,892,881,243
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14.9
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1,673,579,438
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15.5
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13.1
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Oracle
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798,599,723
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6.3
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597,935,146
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5.5
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33.6
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Fujitsu
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591,959,434
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4.7
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645,299,697
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6.0
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-8.3
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Other Vendors
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1,798,809,376
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14.2
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1,440,384,216
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13.3
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24.9
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Total
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12,670,511,219
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100.0
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10,798,798,151
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100.0
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17.3
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Worldwide: Server Vendor Revenue Estimates, 1Q11 (U.S. Dollars)
TABBLE1 (http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1700715)
Source: Gartner (May 2011)
In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in
the first quarter of 2011 (see Table 2) with a year-on-year
shipment increase of 2.3 percent for the quarter. This growth
was driven by increases produced from HP's ProLiant brand.
HP's worldwide server shipment share was 29.8 percent, representing
a 1.8 percent drop in share from the same quarter in 2010.
Of the top five vendors in server shipments worldwide,
HP and IBM posted year-on-year increases in units for the
first quarter.
In terms of server form factors, x86 blade servers rose
6.1 percent in shipments and 24.6 percent in revenue for
the quarter, to produce the highest revenue growth by form
factor. The rack-optimized form factor had the highest shipment
growth at 11.2 percent and climbed 19.6 percent in revenue
for the first quarter.
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Company
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1Q11
Shipments
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1Q11 Market Share (%)
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1Q10
Shipments
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1Q10 Market Share (%)
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1Q10-1Q11 Growth (%)
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HP
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687,502
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29.8
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672,094
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31.6
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2.3
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Dell
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508,650
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22.0
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510,452
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24.0
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-0.4
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IBM
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272,238
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11.8
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268,010
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12.6
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1.6
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Fujitsu
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76,648
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3.3
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77,613
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3.6
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-1.2
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Oracle
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36,795
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1.6
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42,528
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2.0
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-13.5
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Other Vendors
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725,654
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31.4
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556,231
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26.2
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30.5
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Total
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2,307,486
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100.0
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2,126,928
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100.0
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8.5
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Worldwide: Server Vendor Shipments Estimates, 1Q11 (Units)
Source: Gartner (May 2011)
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