In the second quarter of 2008, Asia Pacific (AP) server shipments posted yet another healthy growth of 15.6 % year-on-year, with revenue increased 5.4 % year-on-year, according to analyst firm Gartner... |
In the second quarter of 2008, Asia Pacific (AP) server shipments posted yet another healthy growth of 15.6 % year-on-year, with revenue increased 5.4 % year-on-year, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Q2 saw server revenues total USD 2.01 billion for the quarter, as server shipments reached 390,758 units.
Despite the US downturn, healthy economic conditions in many of the emerging markets in the region like India, Indonesia and Vietnam is apparently fuelling IT spending across various industries.
In Singapore, server shipments totaled 11,193 in the second quarter of 2008, a 12.6 % increase over the same quarter last year. However, total revenue was down year-on-year, from SGD111.3 million (USD73.7 million) in Q107 to SGD104.1 million (USD68.9 million) in Q208, due to increasing price competition, particularly in the x86 server market.
According to Gartner, the x86 server segment turned out to be the key growth contributor, especially in bigger markets like Greater China and Australia and New Zealand. Growth is driven from continued improvement in x86 technology and growing adoption of virtualization technology.
Whilst Hewlett Packard is leading in the blade server market, both in shipments and revenue, IBM remains the leader for the overall server market revenue in the Asia Pacific region.
Among the top five vendors, IBM and Dell were the revenue share gainers during the second quarter with 38 percent and 11 percent market share respectively.
By shipments, HP led with 30 percent market share in the second quarter of 2008 thanks to its Itanium-based Integrity server line, which continued to show a healthy increase of 45 percent on annual basis.
“HP continued its efforts to migrate customers from traditional HP PA-RISC to its Itanium server platforms and this has started bearing fruit,” said Erica Gadjuli, principle research analyst at Gartner.
“As a result, we are observing only a slight growth of just over one percent year-on-year for the RISC server platform in Asia Pacific.”
The RISC server segment shrank further in its revenue share to 34 percent in Q208 from 35 percent in 2Q07. IBM was the sole growth contributor in this space.
“It seems that IBM’s business realignment, especially for System p and System i, in the beginning of the year has increased users’ confidence, particularly in Korea and emerging markets like India, Indonesia and Vietnam,” said Ms. Gadjuli.
“Meanwhile Sun continued to face challenges this quarter, unable to repeat last year’s success.” |
