GEC NEWS WIREGrew 7.5 Percent in the Third Quarter of 2015, While Shipments Increased 9.2 Percent— Gartner
Jeffrey Hewitt, Research Vice President at Gartner said, “All regions showed growth in both shipments and vendor revenue, except for Eastern Europe, Japan and Latin America, which posted revenue declines of 5.8 percent, 11.7 percent and 24.2 percent, respectively, for the period. Currency exchange rates are one of the main reasons for the disparity in regional server market performance.”
From the regional standpoint, Asia/Pacific grew the most in shipments, with a 23.8 percent increase. The region also posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 25.4 percent for the period.
HP continued to lead the worldwide server market based on revenue. All of the top five global vendors had revenue increases for the third quarter of 2015, except for IBM with a decline of 42.8 percent. In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the third quarter of 2015 with a year-over-year shipment increase of 7.7 percent. All of the top five vendors in server shipments worldwide produced shipment increases in the third quarter of 2015, with Lenovo recording the largest growth of 183.2 percent.
Mr. Hewitt said, “x86 servers managed to produce an increase with growth of 9.2 percent in shipments and 9.7 percent in revenue year over year. RISC/Itanium Unix server revenue declined 11.5 percent in the third quarter, while shipments grew 1.1 percent. The ‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 3.5 percent in terms of revenue.”
