Worldwide server market estimation in 2013

Gartner has estimated in the third quarter of 2013, worldwide server shipments grew 1.9 percent year-on-year, while revenue declined 2.1 percent from the third quarter of 2012. “The worldwide server market remains in a relatively weak performance mode as we move through the second half of the year,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. “There were only three regions that exhibited positive vendor revenue growth. They were Canada at 6.5 percent, the Middle East and Africa at 12.1 percent and the United States with 0.9 percent growth. In shipments, the Middle East and Africa had the greatest increase at 13 percent compared to the third quarter of 2012.” “x86 servers maintained low levels of growth at 2.1 percent in units year-on-year and 4.4 percent in revenue. RISC/Itanium Unix servers continued to decline at 4.5 percent and 31 percent in vendor revenue compared to the same quarter last year. The ‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 7.8 percent,” Mr. Hewitt said. Vendor analysis by Gartner: HP had the lead in the worldwide server market based on revenue (see Table 1). The company posted just over $3.4 billion in server vendor revenue for a total share of 27.6 percent worldwide for the third quarter of 2013. This was up 2.2 percent year-on-year. HP and Cisco were the only vendors in the top five to have revenue in...