IDC: the global server market continues to fall
Analyst firm IDC today summed up the worldwide server market in the second quarter, showing the deplorable, but for many obvious results. For the period April to June vendors shipped a total of servers in the amount of 11.9 billion dollars, which is 6.2% less than in the second quarter of 2012. The fall recorded in unit shipments - the number of physical servers sold decreased by 1.2% to 2,000,000 units, with marked decline for the third consecutive quarter.
IDC notes that the main causes of the fall of the server market two: First, the objective macroeconomic factors - businesses are reluctant to go to buy not cheap server hardware, and secondly, technology factors - the new servers are becoming more powerful and at the same machine you can hang more objectives, and in addition virtualization and cloud services allow you to post on the same server 2-3 or even 10 different operating systems, each of which is from the point of view of the user is a separate unit.
IDC reports that during the year the number of servers sold in the 12-month cycle has decreased by 2.4%, which is significant, since the objective requirements in computing and data storage capacity grows.
Note that the IDC report covers only the servers, it does not take into account sales of server-like equipment, such as storage, network switching systems, etc.
The report's authors say that in most civilized countries the main driver in the server market are small businesses - a lot of them, and while they are buying mostly cheap solutions, they take scale. Now, however, a small business in the U.S. and Europe is not so rosy look to the future and for many buying a new server takes a back seat.
Worst of all, according to IDC, is the uncertainty in the server market. That is, now we can not say when we see the light at the end of the tunnel. The last factor negatively affects everyone - consumers and producers.
According to the metric IDC, in the second quarter of the world's largest manufacturer of servers was IBM, which took 27.9%, but in monetary terms, the company's revenue from server sales fell 10%. This was a sign of weak demand for key products of the company - the massive servers System X, as well as cheap model IBM Power Systems.
Second place went to Hewlett-Pacakrd, which took 25.9% of the market, and its sales revenue of servers for the year fell by 17.5% and its market share fell by 3.6%. Recall that last year around as IBM, and HP is continually hovered around rumors about the sale of the budget x86-servers. Analysts say that although this area is the most popular, the margin here is balancing within an arithmetic error, so the manufacturers are not so much hold on the business.
In third place with 18.8% of the market has settled Dell, which for years has managed to increase server revenue by 10.3%, while the market share of 2.8%. Oracle Corporation and its Sun-servers failed to shift the company Cisco Systems from 4th to 5th place. The share of Oracle for the quarter amounted to 6%, Cisco - 4,5%. A little less for Fujitsu, which formally dropped out of the top five largest producers.
The report also said that the total market of x86-server in the second quarter amounted to 1.9 million servers and 8.7 billion dollars.
Top 5 Corporate Family, Worldwide Server Systems Factory Revenue, Second Quarter of 2013 (Revenues are in Millions)
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