Dave Bailey, Computing, Friday 4 September 2009 at 12:58:00
IDC reports lowest server revenue levels ever recorded, with vendors still
awaiting green shoots
European server sales have dropped to the lowest level ever recorded by Research and analyst firm IDC has reported the lowest levels of server According to IDC?s Quarterly Server Tracker for Europe, Middle East and "Conditions remain tough because customers have been limiting IT spending to "IDC sees signs of stabilisation this quarter, including modest growth in Virtualisation on x86 systems was seen as the growth engine by server vendors IDC confirmed the market trend towards x86 servers, which outperformed IDC's European Systems and Infrastructure Solutions research analyst Giorgio "[Vendors are] escalating the number of integrated, richly configured Windows and Linux-based systems showed similar annual declines of about 32 HP was EMEA's top server vendor for the sixth consecutive quarter, with In second place was IBM continuing the transition from System p to Power
analyst IDC.
revenue it has ever seen in the second quarter of 2009.
Africa (EMEA), server vendor revenue in the second quarter of 2009 reached
$2.9bn (�1.8bn), 35.8 per cent down on the same period last year, with the
number of servers shipped dropping below half a million, 33.9 per cent down on
2008.
the bare essentials to keep their IT infrastructure running, and this has
negatively impacted hardware investment," said IDC analyst for European Systems
and Infrastructures Solutions Beatriz Valle.
average selling prices and quasi-flat quarter-on-quarter revenue decline."
hoping for a traditionally strong fourth quarter, according to the research. But
IDC pointed out that it would take much longer than that for EMEA server revenue
to match the peak of $5.4bn (�3.3bn) seen in the fourth quarter of 2007.
non-x86 servers, taking 52.3 per cent of total revenue, declining 33 per cent
from last year. This compares with a steeper 38.6 per cent decline for non-x86
systems.
Nebuloni said that blade systems are expected to be less affected by the
economic downturn, due to increased consolidation within budget-constrained
companies.
solution blocks based on a scalable layer of blade servers, in an attempt to
decommoditise the upper end of the x86 business," he said.
per cent, but Windows was the only main operating system whose market share
increased both quarterly and annually. Operating systems running on non-x86
hardware were worst hit, with Unix system revenue below $1bn (�611m) for the
second consecutive quarter, with revenue down 38.7 per cent annually.
ProLiant server sales worth around $700m (�428m), 72 per cent of its revenue, up
from 66.7 per cent in the same quarter of 2008.
systems, and growing its market share 1.4 per cent. Power systems revenue edged
closer to $400m (�244m), accounting for 41.9 per cent of the vendor?s total.
However, mainframe revenue dropped by nearly half, down 46.7 per cent annually.
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2248944/emea-server-revenue-hits-rock
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