Gartner: Q2 server shipments up on Sun, Dell strength
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Server shipments and revenue increased in the second quarter as Sun Microsystems Inc. and Dell Inc. gained market share at the expense of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and IBM Corp., according to research released by Gartner Inc. Wednesday.
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August 26, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Research and analysis firm Gartner  said on Wednesday that global sales of servers surpassed $11.
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Dell Inc.  comfortably  beat analysts' estimates for quarterly earnings on Tuesday as  it sold more laptops and increased sales in China and Europe,  sending its shares nearly 10 percent higher.
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Dell raced further ahead of rival Hewlett-Packard in the worldwide PC market during the third quarter, according to new research. In separate reports released on Monday, Gartner and IDC both found that the
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(InfoWorld) - New numbers from Gartner show that computer server sales slowed in the third quarter, a trend the research company attributes to virtualization. Gartner's latest report on servers, released Tuesday, shows that worldwide sales grew by 4.4 percent, based on revenue, to just over $13 billion, and 9.1 percent by unit volume, to 2 billion servers. In the second quarter, sales rose 2.5 percent by revenue and 12.8 percent by unit volume. "We have seen double-digit growth in the past," said Jeff Hewitt, research director for Gartner. "Server sales are still growing, but because of virtualization, customers don't have to buy as many servers." Virtualization makes it possible to run more programs on one physical server, using more of its capacity and making it possible for a data center to handle more work with fewer servers. Among the server vendors, market share rankings remained the same in Gartner's numbers, which cover the three-month period ended Sept. 30, compared with previous quarters. IBM Corp. retained the market share lead, with 33.7 percent, based on a 7.4 percent revenue gain to $4.38 billion, from the third quarter of 2005. Hewlett-Packard Co. followed with 25.3 percent market share on a 6 percent decline in revenue to $3.29 billion. Dell Inc. ranked third with a 10.8 percent share on a 10.2 percent revenue gain to $1.41 billion. Sun Microsystems Inc. ranked fourth with a 10.1 percent share based on a 24.7 percent revenue gain to $1.31 billion. Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. ranked fifth, with a 4.9 percent share on a 5.6 percent revenue gain to $634 million. Other vendors combined for a 15.3 percent share based on 6.5 percent revenue growth to $1.99 billion. Hewitt attributed Sun's resurgence to the introduction of new servers running the Opteron microprocessor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which has emerged as a strong competitor to the processors from Intel Corp. In sales based on unit volume, HP led the way with a 26.5 percent share based on 7.2 percent growth to 540,609 units; Dell ranked second with a 22.5 percent share on 10.5 percent growth to 459,950; IBM third with 16.3 percent share on 7.7 percent growth to 332,777; Sun Microsystems fourth with a 4.1 percent share on a 6.4 percent growth to 83,018 units; and Fujitsu fifth with a 3.2 percent, based on a decline of 5.9 percent to 65,171. Other server brands collectively reported 27.5 percent share on growth of 13.4 percent to 560,913 units.
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Dell Inc  returned to  double-digit percentage growth in global PC shipments in the  fourth quarter as its new retail sales strategy began to pay  off, while rival Hewlett-Packard Co's  growth slowed,  technology researcher IDC said on Wednesday.
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SEQUENTIAL server revenue at Sun Microsystems has grown faster than the overall market, the firm claimed today. Citing a Gartner Dataquest report, Sun claimed that in the second calendar quarter of this year
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(InfoWorld) - Sales growth for x86 servers slowed in the fourth quarter of 2006 as buyers adopted virtualization technology and waited for quad-core processors, according to a Gartner report released Thursday. Hewlett-PackardÂ sold the most servers, but IBM collected the most money for them in 2006, the report said. Worldwide server shipments in the full year 2006 grew by 8.9 percent to 8.2 million units, but revenue grew only 2 percent to $52.7 billion, compared with 2005, according to Gartner. HP led the competition in server shipments, sending 2.2 million units out the door, up 8 percent from 2005. But IBM took the top spot on revenue with $16.9 billion, up 1.7 percent from the previous year. Shipments of x86 servers, the most widely deployed server platform, slowed in the fourth quarter, which held down full-year totals, said Gartner analyst Jeffrey Hewitt. The growth was "slower ... than we have seen in most recent years," Hewitt said in a prepared statement. "Most of that slowdown seems to be attributable to a lengthening of the sales cycle due to the anticipated introduction of quad-core x86 processors, with some lesser impact from x86 server virtualization." Virtualization software increases the utilization rate for servers, so a company could buy fewer servers than without virtualization. The report also showed continued strength for Sun, which posted a 15.4 percent gain in server revenue in 2006 to $5.7 billion. Sun also increased its revenue market share to 10.8 percent, replacing DellÂ (10.3 percent) in the number three spot. IBM led with 32.2 percent of the market, followed by HP at 28.2 percent. While Sun was the only vendor to report double-digit revenue growth, it shipped just 368,000 units, about one-seventh the number of units that market leader HP shipped.
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Dell Inc. said Thursday that preliminary second-quarter earnings jumped 46 percent on stronger sales of enterprise products and services, improved average selling prices and favorable component costs.
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com December 7, 2004, 4:22 PM PT. SAN FRANCISCO--Top Dell executives disparaged the &quot;big iron&quot; approach of building large, powerful servers on Tuesday--a dig at rivals IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.
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(InfoWorld) - PC vendors reported global shipment growth of 12.5 percent in the second quarter as every major vendor except Dell posted a double-digit percentage increase in unit shipments compared to the same period last year, according to a report released Wednesday by IDC. Dell shipped 4.9 percent fewer PCs during the quarter than it did in 2006 as the company continued to struggle with a corporate restructuring effort that has included deep job cuts, changes in executive leadership, and a new strategy of selling computers through retail channels instead of only online. In contrast, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) consolidated its position as the world's largest PC vendor with unit shipment growth of 36.5 percent. Overall, vendors sold 58.8 million PCs in the quarter, IDC said. A report released on the same day by Gartner showed similar results with Dell sliding 5.5 percent compared to HP's growth of 36.6 percent. Gartner reported that global PC shipments rose 11.7 percent to 61.1 million units. HP is seeing good results because of a multifaceted approach that allows the company to concentrate its sales efforts on new regions if sales slump in another sector, said David Daoud, manager of the personal computing and PC tracker programs at IDC. "They are not putting all their eggs in a single basket," he said. "That is the result for a company that has adopted a multifaceted approach. PC shipments were slightly better than expected in the U.S., but they have done even better outside the U.S. in emerging markets and western Europe. So they can manage multiple regions." Despite the contrast in trends, none of the top five vendors changed their worldwide rankings by market share. For the quarter, HP claimed the top spot with 19.3 percent of global PC sales volume, leading Dell with 16.1 percent, Lenovo with 8.3 percent, Acer with 7.2 percent and Toshiba with 4.1 percent, according to IDC. The Gartner study showed the same rankings. However, Acer could soon begin to climb the rankings, if its success continues. The company improved its PC shipment volume by 55.4 percent in the second quarter, pulling close behind Lenovo, which grew at 22.3 percent. "Acer is laser-focused on particular segments, especially SMB and channel resellers," Daoud said. "They are just plowing." In the U.S., Acer is only the sixth-biggest PC vendor but showed the fastest rise in shipments, improving by 163.8 percent over the second quarter of 2006. Overall, the U.S. market is lead by Dell with 28.4 percent market share by shipments, then HP with 23.6 percent, Gateway and Apple with 5.6 percent each, Toshiba with 5.3 percent, and Acer with 5.2 percent. IDC counts PC shipments including sales of desktops, notebooks, ultraportables, and x86 servers, but not handhelds. Overall, the global market achieved its 12.5 percent shipment growth in the quarter thanks to good activity in the Asia-Pacific region and to slightly better than expected activity in the U.S., Daoud said. That growth rate was higher than the first quarter, when shipments rose 10.9 percent over that period in the previous year, and higher than the second quarter of 2006, when shipments rose 9.7 percent year on year. For the future, consumers continue to buy notebooks instead of desktops as the cost premium between the two models has narrowed to its smallest differential yet. IDC forecast strong growth in the second half of 2007 but said that market competition will be more complex than just cutting prices. Instead, PC vendors will try to get customers' attention with system design, customer service, channel coverage, and market expansion.
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When E Solutions Corp. needed to outfit its second data center to manage  rapidly growing demand for its hosting, networking and data-management  operations, they turned to Dell (NASDAQ:DELL). "Demand for our hosting services alone has  grown by nearly 600 percent over the last five years.
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Server shipments and revenue increased in the second quarter, with low-cost servers based on Linux or the Windows operating system growing faster than their Unix counterparts, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N and   Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW.O were among the fastest-growing   data storage providers in the second quarter, while EMC Corp.   EMC.N and Dell Inc. DELL.O lagged overall market growth,   researcher IDC said on Thursday.
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Computer giant Dell Inc.'s server sales rose in the third quarter, overtaking Sun Microsystems Inc. for the No. 3 position, according to a Gartner Inc. research report released Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The latest results on the server market from research firm Gartner show IBM and Hewlett-Packard dueling for the top spots in terms of revenue and shipments.
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High points of the coming year will include continuing strength in the DRAM market and strong consumer electronics sales, Gartner says.