Gartner has reported that worldwide server shipments grew 27.1% year over year in the second quarter of 2010, while revenue climbed 14.3 per cent.
"As in the first quarter, the second quarter again demonstrated strong year-on-year growth," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. "x86-based servers grew 28.9 percent in units in the second quarter and 37.0 percent in revenues. RISC/Itanium Unix servers remained constrained, with declines of 16.5 per cent in shipments and decreases of 8.8 per cent in vendor revenues, compared to the same quarter last year. The 'other' CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, fell 22.8 per cent in revenues for the quarter."
From the regional standpoint, Eastern Europe grew the most significantly in server shipments, with a 46.9-per cent increase in the second quarter of 2010, as well as the highest vendor revenue growth, at 26.2 per cent for the period. All other regions had varying shipment and revenue increases.
HP led the worldwide server market based on revenue. The company posted just over $3.5 billion in server vendor revenue, and accounted for 32 per cent of worldwide server revenue for the second quarter of 2010.
Of the top five global vendors, Dell, Fujitsu and HP all had revenue increases for the second quarter of 2010. Of the top five vendors in server shipments worldwide, Dell, Fujitsu, HP and IBM posted increases in units for the second quarter.
In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the second quarter of 2010, with its market share totaling 30 per cent, as shipments increased 23.3 per cent over the same period last year. This growth was driven by increased produced from HP's ProLiant brand.
