* Note: IDC declares a statistical tie in the worldwide server market when there is less than one percent difference in the revenue share of two or more vendors.
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"As the market continued to focus on healthy hyperscale datacenter growth, non-x86 servers, in particular high-end mainframes, had significant growth this quarter on the back of IBM's z13 refresh," said Kuba Stolarski, Research Manager, Enterprise Servers at IDC. "While IDC does not expect high-end non-x86 sales to continue to grow at such high rates, this quarter does illustrate that there is still significant demand for high-end systems. Even as high-end systems are increasingly being deployed on x86 platforms, opportunities for long-term non-x86 growth still exist with OpenPower and ARM, as customers are looking for non-x86 alternatives to hyperscale problems. Some of that transformation is likely to occur in the greenfield opportunities related to Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, while optimizing hardware and software for hyperscale datacenter workloads continues to be a driver of design innovation and supply chain diversification."
Top Server Market Findings
- While Asia/Pacific usually shows the greatest revenue growth year over year, this quarter the US market showed a 28.5% increase, while Asia/Pacific growth followed at 20.8% year over year. Growth in Western Europe was a healthy 9%. Latin America and the Middle East and Africa (MEA) showed revenue growth rates of 26.3% and 10.7%, respectively. In 1Q15, only Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) and Canada showed declines of -14.9% and -10.6%, respectively.
- Demand for x86 servers improved again in 1Q15 with revenues increasing 13.4% year over year in the quarter to $10.3 billion worldwide as unit shipments increased 8.4% to 2.2 million servers. HP led the market with 28.9% revenue share based on 12.4% revenue growth over 1Q14. Dell retained second place, securing 22.4% revenue share following 12.6% year over year revenue growth.
- Non-x86 servers experienced showed a strong quarter, with revenue growth of 31.6% against a weak prior quarter in 1Q14.
IDC's Server Taxonomy
IDC's Server Taxonomy maps the eleven
price bands within the server market into three price ranges: volume
servers, midrange servers and high-end servers. The revenue data
presented in this release is stated as factory revenue for a server
system. IDC presents data in factory revenue to determine market share
position. Factory revenue represents those dollars recognized by
multi-user system and server vendors for ISS and upgrade units sold
through direct and indirect channels and includes the following embedded
server components: Frame or cabinet and all cables, processors, memory,
communications boards, operating system software, other bundled software
and initial internal and external disk shipments.
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker is a quantitative tool for analyzing the global server market on a quarterly basis. The Tracker includes quarterly shipments (both ISS and upgrades) and revenues (both customer and factory), segmented by vendor, family, model, region, operating system, price band, CPU type, and architecture. For more information, please contact Lidice Fernandez at 305-351-3051 or lfernandez@idc.com.
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