Q2 server shipments gain
Additionally, it was the sixth consecutive quarter for revenue growth as server sales gained 17.9% to reach $13.2 billion in the quarter, and the seventh consecutive quarter of growth for the 'volume' server category, the IDC report said.
“Server market growth accelerated in 2Q11 [the second quarter of 2011] and experienced its highest reported second quarter revenue in three years with all geographies contributing to the positive year-over-year growth,” Matt Eastwood, group VP for enterprise platforms at IDC, said in a statement.
Midrange enterprise demand improved for the fourth time in the past five quarters, with a 16.7% year-over-year revenue increase, reports CBR.
The improving market conditions extended to the high-end enterprise segment, as quarterly revenue increased 22.8% when compared to 2Q10.
IBM and HP jointly held the number one position in the worldwide server market with 30.5% and 29.8% factory revenue share respectively for 2Q11, a statistical tie.
The market for non-x86 servers, including servers based on RISC, EPIC (Itanium-based), and CISC processors, increased 23.3% year-over-year to $4.8 billion in Q2 2011, states Xbit Labs.
This is the third consecutive quarter in which non-x86 servers have exhibited positive growth and the second consecutive quarter that non-x86 based system revenue has grown faster than the market overall.
Growth in non-x86 server revenue was driven by improved demand for Unix servers and IBM System z platforms.
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