Sun, with 9.4% revenue share, posted a 3.7% decline in revenue from a year ago, although unit shipments grew 7.9%.
Similar to the previous quarter, there were a statistical tie for the third position between Sun and Dell. HP’s growth stemmed from strong Proliant server performance. HP maintained the number 2 spot with 25.9% share, growing revenue 5.9% compared to 4Q03. This growth was driven primarily by strong performances from both its xSeries and pSeries servers.
IBM held onto its number 1 spot in the worldwide server systems market with 38.2% market share in factory revenue, growing factory revenue by 6.5% year over year. “This trend towards modularization shows that customers are also increasingly embracing blade computing and both scale-out and scale-up server virtualization technologies as they refresh and expand their IT infrastructures.” “Volume servers are being deployed in rich configurations, and in scale-out cluster configurations, to take on a wider range of enterprise workloads,” said Matthew Eastwood, program vice president of IDC’s Worldwide Server Group. Once again, volume servers are leading the market in both revenue and unit shipment growth, demonstrating the dramatic impact that these systems are having on the worldwide server marketplace. This pattern is very different than what was seen in the fourth quarter of 2003, when all three segments grew as server market revenue surged at year end. This reflects both a decline in unit shipments for those server classes and continued price compression, which reduces average sales prices for these servers. The volume server segment (servers priced less than $25,000) was the only market segment that experienced revenue growth in 4Q04, while midrange enterprise servers ($25,000 to $499,999) and high-end enterprise servers ($500,000 or more) showed declining revenue. IBM led the overall server market in 2004 with 33.3% revenue share, followed by HP with 26.6% share.
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Worldwide server unit shipments growth slowed modestly to 15.7% in 4Q04 when compared with the year-ago period.įor the full year 2004, worldwide server revenue grew 6.2% to $49.0 billion, while worldwide unit shipments grew 19.3% to 6.3 million units. Since 1987 - Covering the Fastest Computers in the World and the People Who Run ThemĪccording to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 5.1% to $14.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004, marking the seventh consecutive quarter of positive growth.