Servers on an upsurge

IDC's EMEA Server Tracker results for 3Q07 reveals that revenue from volume servers grew by 12% annually in EMEA, hovering around the US$4 billion mark and by 9% in Western Europe.

Both Windows servers and Linux servers experienced annual growth in the mid-teens.

The report also states that Rack servers beat the pedestal form to the top spot with 47% of the total revenue in EMEA. Blades are progressively establishing themselves as a mainstream form factor and made up 8% of the total, with annual sales growth of 48% and 35% in EMEA and Western Europe respectively.

HP maintained its traditional stronghold in the x86 space and even significantly increased its marketshare. Strong performance by its high-end servers, particularly the Integrity line, which went up by 71% annually, tipped the balance in its favour. IBM lost market share in the quarter, which historically doesn't favor sales of System z and System p servers.

Sun Microsystems held on to its market share thanks to good results for the high-end SPARC line. Dell's increased solutions marketing, focused segment approach, and pricing structure produced significant growth. Fujitsu Siemens Computers generated good growth throughout its portfolio and delivered 13% revenue growth, which translated into a small year-on-year share increase.

Commenting on the increasing importance of x86 servers in the market, Nathaniel Martinez, program manager for European Enterprise Servers at IDC, said, "Volume servers continued to lead the market generating strong revenue and unit growth as European IT departments take advantage of innovations such as multi-core, virtualisation, and blades to derive more efficiencies in the datacenters in terms of increased capacity, density, and power management." At the same time, vendors are focusing their offering and bundles at the SMB market which is expected to remain a driver for the market.

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