subject: Virtualization Does Not Lead To Strong Sales Of Server Sales Drop - Server, Microsoft, Windows-it [print this page] Global Server Sales in 2008 continued its advance, the relative weakness in the U.S. market and the potential threat of virtualization has not Server Affect sales, according to I DC Consulting research report.
IDC consulting company said first quarter of 2008, worldwide server sales totaled 130 billion U.S. dollars, and last year grew 3.5%. Unit sales of more than 2 million units, if an annual basis, it means that the server unit sales will exceed eight million units last year, server sales volume.
The data caused concern throughout the industry is due to last year, including the majority of research institutions, including IDC predicted to result in the server virtualization sales will decrease, however, is contrary to it and the experts predict.
"Not all the servers are equipped with visualization tools" IDC research vice president, Enterprise Platforms Group JeanBozman that "high-performance computing and Network There is no application workload virtualization. Some users continue to purchase new server, but ultimately it is the virtualization trend. "
Bozman added that the global server sales growth shows even more robust server needs a "world in all places and all kinds of enterprises are expanding their infrastructure, the resulting stream was also buying demand."
Blade server showing a white-hot growth, and last year surged 53.7%, Bozman attributed blade unmatched price advantage. "We found that users are very concerned about operating cost control, the user is running more in the blade server workloads, but also benefit from cost control."
IDC statistics price of 25,000 dollars or less in the low-end system sales revenue grew 5.4% last year, priced at 25,000 dollars to 500,000 dollars in the midrange between the sales growth of 7.2%, while the high-end server revenue grew 9.7%.
With the Gartner consulting firm, like the recent research findings, IDC found that sales of Hewlett-Packard to become the biggest winner, with 29% market share slightly ahead of IBM, Big Blue first quarter of 2008 market share was 28.1%.
HP's first quarter sales revenue reached 3.77 billion U.S. dollars, and last year's increase of more than 4.2%.
IBM sales is impressive, the Z10 mainframe sales reached 1.1 billion U.S. dollars, and last year growth rate of more than 10.4%, as the last three years IBMSystem z Series mainframe sales year on year one of the highest quarter.
Can win the HP ProLiant server, its main benefit, the energy system of servers and BladeSystem blade server market's remarkable performance.
"First quarter sales of commercial success for HP system off to a good start," Bozman said that "next level on HP's server sales also help."
IDC research also shows that Dell During the quarter, very strong sales growth, sales revenue increased by 9.4%, the highest growth rate is the major vendors in a. The SUN Microsystems growth rate fell slightly last year by 1.8%.
Microsoft's Windows server to maintain growth momentum, the server first quarter of 2008 sales totaled 5.1 billion U.S. dollars, and last year grew 4.2%. Windows operating system, server load during the quarter accounted for the entire server-quarter sales 39.2%.
Linux server revenue reached 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, and last year grew 8.4%, accounting for a quarter of the entire server revenue 13.7%. The Unix server revenue was 40 billion, a growth rate of 0.8% year on year, accounting for the entire server-quarter revenue of 30.6%.
X86 server sales revenue grew 4.4% last year, largely by the SUN, IBM, Itanium servers and HP business domination of the non-X86 server market last year grew 2.5%.
