Dell Technologies leads the Indian server market in Q1 2020

Indian server market numbers are out and Dell Technologies emerged as the top vendor in the India x86 server market with a revenue share of 36.0% and a revenue of $71.3 million as per the IDC report . Dell Technologies emerged on top due to its wins from key professional services, banks, high-tech semiconductor manufacturing companies, and telecommunication vendors that helped Dell Technologies to secure the pole position. Please find below the link for the IDC report for your kind perusal.

The overall server market in India witnessed a year-over-year (YoY) decline of 22.1% in terms of revenue to reach $232.1 million in 1Q2020 (Jan-Mar) versus $298.0 million in 1Q2019, 1Q2020 (June 2020 release). The x86 server market accounts for 85.2% of the overall server market in terms of revenue.

Major contribution to the x86 server market continues to come from the professional services and telecommunications segments, followed by banking and manufacturing verticals. Large deals were witnessed from telecommunication vendors, nationalized banks, digital wallets companies, global high-tech semiconductor manufacturing companies, and various federal government departments during 1Q2020.

The non-x86 server market grew YoY by 3.6% to reach $34.2 million revenue, in 1Q2020. IBM continues to dominate the market accounting for 74.1% of revenue share, during 1Q2020 with a revenue of $25.4 million. Adoption of IBM’s server offerings is growing primarily across banks for their core banking and internet banking workloads. As a result, 79.4% of its revenue was seen coming from banks, followed by manufacturing. Oracle came at second position followed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) with a revenue share of 14.6% and 11.3% respectively.

“I am delighted to share that Dell Technologies has yet again secured the top spot in the Indian server market. As a brand, we have always tried to stay close to our customers, listening to their evolving needs and delivering the best-in-class solutions, in order to help them make better business decisions, leading to higher ROI. I believe this to be the core reason which has enabled us to increase our industry share by such a larger percentage in Q1 this year. This is a clear testimony that our technologies have resonated well with our customers and the industry at large, and that they have accepted Dell Technologies as their right digital partner”, said Manish Gupta, Senior Director and General Manager, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies India. “I strongly believe that servers are the bedrock of modern datacenters and this is clearly something that India businesses understand too. Our way forward as a brand will be to constantly invest in new- age technologies that will further diversify our portfolio of solutions. We will be focusing on IT solutions that are both agile and efficient, which will further help Indian businesses to thrive in this dynamic, hyper-competitive world, driven by data.