(Revenues are in Millions)
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Vendor |
2008 Revenue |
2008 Market Share |
2007 Revenue |
2007 Market Share |
2008/2007 Revenue Growth |
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| 1. IBM |
$16,988 |
31.9% |
$17,336 |
31.4% |
-2.0% |
| 2. HP |
$15,751 |
29.5% |
$16,041 |
29.1% |
-1.8% |
| 3. Dell |
$6,199 |
11.6% |
$6,261 |
11.4% |
-1.0% |
| 4. Sun |
$5,377 |
10.1% |
$5,868 |
10.6% |
-8.4% |
| 5. Fujitsu/FSC |
$2,566 |
4.8% |
$2,676 |
4.9% |
-4.1% |
| Others |
$6,451 |
12.1% |
$6,949 |
12.6% |
-7.2% |
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|
|
|
| All Vendors |
$53,332 |
100.0% |
$55,130 |
100.0% |
-3.3% |
It will get worse before the server market improves, late this year or early 2010.
According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker released today, worldwide server revenue declined 3.3% to $53.3 billion, while worldwide unit shipments grew 2.0% to 8.1 million units, for the full year 2008.
This is the first time the server market exceeded 8 million units in a calendar year, reflecting continued demand for new physical servers even as virtualization makes significant gains in the enterprise, said IDC.
“In the near term, IT customers will increasingly look for IT optimization projects with strong ROI potential and extend virtualization, consolidation, and migration programs in order to lower capital and operational costs while improving efficiencies,” said Matthew Eastwood, group vice president of IDC’s Enterprise Platforms Group in a statement.
Blade servers are hottest products in slowing server market
One bright spot is the market for blade servers – slim computers that slide into a chassis – for which revenues grew 33.3% year over year to $5.4 billion in 2008.
H-P maintained the number 1 spot in the server blade market last quarter with 54.8% revenue share and IBM finished second with 21.7% revenue share. Sun, Dell, and Fujitsu/Fujitsu-Siemens all significantly outperformed the market with year-over-year revenue growth of more than 60% respectively.
