IBM leads the world in server revenue with a 25% marketshare in the first quarter, just ahead of HP, despite a significant decline for the three months along with most other major vendor server shipments,
But, while slightly behind IBM in global revenues, HP remained the worldwide leader in server shipments for the first quarter of 2013, ahead of both Dell and IBM.
All of the top five vendors suffered revenue declines in the first quarter, with the exception of Dell which grew 14.4%.
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In Australia, server shipments in the first quarter this year declined almost 4.5% compared to the same quarter last year, while revenue declined 20% over the same period.
In terms of units shipped, HP remained the top player in Australia with 35% share, followed by Dell with 26%, while HP also leads in revenue, with 29.5% of the Australan market followed by IBM with 20%.
“The first quarter of 2013 was certainly not a strong period for the server market on a global level,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, Research Vice President at Gartner.
“The only regions to post increases were Asia/Pacific and the United States, with Asia/Pacific showing the strongest growth with shipment and revenue increases of 7% and 1.7%, respectively.
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“x86 server shipment growth was flat in the quarter, while revenue increased 1.8 percent. RISC/Itanium Unix servers declined globally for the period, down 38.8% in shipments and down 35.8% in vendor revenue compared to the same quarter last year. The ‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, exhibited an increase of 3.6% in worldwide revenue.”
Gartner reports that IBM had the lead in the worldwide server market based on revenue, totaling just over US$3 billion in server vendor revenue worldwide, with a total share of 25.5% in the first quarter of 2013. This share was down 2.5% points from the same period in 2012, while in the first quarter of 2013, system x accounted for 29.3% of IBM’s total server revenue.
As Gartner reports, all of the top five vendors suffered revenue declines in the first quarter of 2013 except for Dell which grew 14.4%:
Worldwide: Server Vendor Revenue Estimates, 1Q13 (U.S. Dollars)
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Company |
1Q13 Revenue |
1Q13 Market Share (%) |
1Q12 Revenue |
1Q12 Market Share (%) |
1Q13-1Q12 Growth (%) |
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IBM |
3,016,060 |
25.5 |
3,490,477 |
28.0 |
-13.6 |
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HP |
2,959,030 |
25.0 |
3,455,760 |
27.8 |
-14.4 |
|
Dell |
2,124,462 |
18.0 |
1,857,579 |
14.9 |
14.4 |
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Fujitsu |
583,239 |
4.9 |
626,722 |
5.0 |
-6.9 |
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Oracle |
538,542 |
4.6 |
739,826 |
5.9 |
-27.2 |
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Others |
2,604,390 |
22.0 |
2,273,724 |
18.3 |
14.5 |
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Total |
11,825,724 |
100.0 |
12,444,088 |
100.0 |
-5.0 |
In server shipments, Gartner reports that HP remained the worldwide leader in the first quarter of 2013, in spite of a year-on-year shipment decline of 15.2%, while Dell and Cisco were the only vendors in the top five to have positive shipment growth, with increases of 2.6% and 33%.
In terms of server form factors, Gartner says that blade servers fell 5.9% in shipments and 5% in revenue for the quarter, and the rack-optimised form factor dropped 5.2% in shipments and 2% in revenue in the first quarter of this year.
Worldwide: Server Vendor Shipments Estimates, 1Q13 (Units)
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Company |
1Q13 Shipments |
1Q13 Market Share (%) |
1Q12 Shipments |
1Q12 Market Share (%) |
1Q13-1Q12 Growth (%) |
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HP |
580,563 |
24.9 |
685,015 |
29.2 |
-15.2 |
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Dell |
516,355 |
22.2 |
503,450 |
21.5 |
2.6 |
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IBM |
230,446 |
9.9 |
267,556 |
11.4 |
-13.9 |
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Fujitsu |
73,375 |
3.2 |
86,360 |
3.7 |
-15.0 |
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Cisco |
53,873 |
2.3 |
40,498 |
1.7 |
33.0 |
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Others |
874,396 |
37.5 |
763,205 |
32.5 |
14.6 |
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Total |
2,329,009 |
100.0 |
2,346,083 |
100.0 |
-0.7 |
Source: Gartner (May 2013)
