SHIPMENTS: In the second quarter of 2015, worldwide server shipments grew 8% on year, while revenues increased 7.2% from the second quarter of 2014, according to Gartner.
“The second quarter on-year growth for 2015 slowed compared with the annual growth of the first quarter of the year,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. “Currency exchange rate changes have started to show their impact by reducing relative spending power in regions like Western Europe. It is likely that in anticipation of further currency rate shifts that some organizations utilized their budgets earlier in the year rather than waiting until the third or fourth quarters when their purchasing power may be further reduced by these relative currency changes.
“x86 server shipments increased 8.3% in the second quarter of 2015 and revenues grew 9%. RISC/Itanium Unix server shipments declined 18.7% globally for the period, while RISC/Itanium revenue declined 9.7% compared with the same quarter last year. The ‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 7.8%,” Hewitt said.
From the regional standpoint, North America grew the most significantly in shipments with a 14.8% increase. The region also posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 14.7% for the period.
HP maintained its number one ranking in the worldwide server market based on revenues with a 25.2% market share. Lenovo experienced the largest increase in the second quarter of 2015 with 526.5% growth in revenues. All of the top five global vendors had revenue increases for the second quarter of 2015 except IBM.
In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the second quarter of 2015 with an on-year shipment increase of 2.5%. HP’s worldwide server shipment share was 21.7%, representing a 1.2pp drop in share from the same quarter in 2014.
