HP remains No. 1 in PCs
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Blog: Worldwide PC shipments up 12 percent, fueled by growth in the U.S. and Asia/Pacific regions.
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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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Apple's computers are the most reliable and its support the most dependable of the five top vendors, says a national chain of PC service shops.
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Personal computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co...
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HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced the industry's first easy-to-use storage systems that drive down cost and complexity for small and medium businesses (SMBs) grappling with the exponential growth of data.
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The resurgence of Hewlett-Packard continued during its first fiscal quarter of 2007, which ended January 31, though if Michael Dell has been practicing his last laugh act since having resumed his CEO post at Dell Computer, he may very well have reason to continue practicing today. While last year's scandals didn't sink HP, they did hit the company in its weak spot: US revenues.
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I.T. managers will appreciate the versatility of the HP (NYSE: HPQ) d530 Business Desktop, equipped with a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading technology. The small form-factor desktop targets business consumers seeking a reasonably priced, high-end PC. HP has produced a business machine that will fulfill any office task without draining your entire PC budget.
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Today, the first preliminary numbers for worldwide PC unit shipments from electronics research firm iSuppli are in: Dell lost 1.6% in global PC market share between 2005 and 2006, and its PC shipments declined 8.6% for the year. Hewlett-Packard, meanwhile, gained 2.7% of market share for the year, and shipped more than 20% more PCs than Dell during the fourth quarter.
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Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) on Tuesday posted a 26.5% rise in fourth-quarter profit. For the three months ended Oct. 31, HP reported net income of $1.091 billion, or 37 cents per share, well
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InfoWorld - The world's top PC vendor, Hewlett-Packard, beat competitors Dell, Lenovo, and Apple to provide the best online customer support, according to a survey released on Tuesday by The Customer Respect Group.
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Internal disk eats away at DAS IBM and HP are neck-and-neck for the second place position in the external disk storage market but remain well behind EMC for top billing, according to the latest report by research house IDC.â¦
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Steady growth Worldwide PC sales grew by 15.5 per cent in the third quarter of 2007 boosted by increased demand in Europe for laptops. Figures from IDC's Quarterly PC Tracker reveal US shipments of desktop machines continued to decline while laptop growth remained strong. HP was most improved of the big vendors, with growth of 17 per cent.â¦
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Investor's Business Daily - A week after shaking up its enterprise hardware business following a poor showing last quarter, Hewlett-Packard put its best face forward before more than 7,000 customers and partners at the HP World conference in Chicago.
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'Where shall we store the cash?' EMC and HP were near-tied for number one in storage last quarter, with around 20 per cent of the market a piece, according to figures from IDC. It's HP that's making the running though, with double-digit factory revenue growth compared to EMC's 3 per cent.â¦
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HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) has been awarded a multiyear contract by the U.S. Army to provide desktop PCs, notebook PCs, printers, scanners and displays as part of a U.S. government requirement to ensure the operational readiness of the U.S. armed services worldwide.
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Hewlett-Packard topped Wall Street's revenue and earnings expectations in the first quarter of its 2007 fiscal year.
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(InfoWorld) - If the competition between IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the computer storage business were a horse race, you'd need a photo to determine how they finished the first quarter. But it would only be for the second place ribbon. IBM and HP tied for second place behind EMCÂ in a report released Thursday by IDC tracking external disk storage sales in the first three months of 2007. HP rang up $575 million in revenue for a 13.4 percent market share to IBM's $545 million in revenue and 12.7 percent share. Because the market share numbers were less than one point apart, IDC considers that a "statistical tie." Still, both trailed EMC's $912 million in revenue for a 21.2 percent share. Unlike HP and IBM, EMC is primarily a storage vendor and doesn't sell servers, computers, or printers. "IBM and HP have been pretty close for some time and they continue to just battle it out," said Brad Nisbet, program manager for IDC Storage Systems research. HoweverÂ HP's sales fellÂ 1 percent in the first quarter, compared to the first quarter of 2006, whileÂ IBM's roseÂ 4.8 percent, which Nisbet attributes to HP's dated product lines. HP stands to benefit from what Nisbet said is an upcoming refresh of its high-end XP storage models, developed through HP's collaboration with Hitachi Data Systems. But the Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) and Modular Smart Array (MSA) lines could also use some improvements. "EVA was up 15 percent in this quarter and didn't do too bad, but I think over time they are going to need to refresh that product line," Nisbet said. In an effort to improve its storage business,Â HP recently namedÂ former Hitachi Data Systems CEO David Roberson as senior vice president and general manager of its StorageWorks division, effective May 30. The external disk storage market refers to storage technology that is not built into a server and is the lion's share of the disk storage market. However, in the total disk storage market, HP lead with $1.24 billion in revenue for a 20.1 percent share, followed by IBM's $1.12 billion, 18.3 percent share. EMC fell to third with a 14.8 percent share because it doesn't sell internal storage so its $912 million external storage revenue is its total storage hardware revenue. The IDC numbers show a similar trend to that in a report released Tuesday by Gartner, although each counts storage revenue differently. Gartner gave IBM second place with a 13.2 percent share and HP third with 12.8 percent; it doesn't consider that a statistical tie. EMC lead in that report too, with a 24.5 percent share. Overall, global first quarter external disk storage revenue grew by 4.8 percent over the year ago quarter to $3.8 billion, according to Gartner, and by 5.9 percent to $4.3 billion, according to IDC.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!