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 June 2008 — IDC released a quarterly update to their Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, citing market share figures for the 1st calendar quarter of 2008 (1Q08).
Consider these telling facts:
(Source: All of the following market share figures are for the 1st Quarter of 2008 (unless otherwise noted) and represent worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, May 2008)
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Fact 1: For the 24th consecutive quarter, 6 years, HP is the #1 vendor in worldwide server shipments. HP shipped 1 out of every 3 servers worldwide as HP captured 33.6 percent total unit shipment share. |
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HP shipped over 165,000 more servers than #2 Dell.
HP shipped over 400,000 more servers than #3 IBM and 8.1 times as many as #4 Sun.
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Fact 3: HP extended the lead in the blade server market, with a 46.9% revenue share, and a 49.9% units share taking share from both IBM and Dell. |
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HP grew blade revenue 77.3%, year over year, gaining 6.2 points of revenue market share while IBM lost 5.0 points of revenue share over the same period.
HP grew blade units 54.3%, year over year, gaining 4.8 points of unit market share while IBM lost 5.8 points of share over the same period.
Dell a distant third in blade units and revenue lost 1.6 points unit share and lost 2.2 points revenue share, both year over year.
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Fact 4: For the 47th consecutive quarter HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units [1], shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market. |
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HP’s x86 revenue share was 11.7 points higher than its nearest competitor, Dell.
HP remains the leading provider of AMD Opteron processor-based servers and server blades, with a 35.8% of factory revenue share.
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Fact 7: HP is #1 in Linux® revenue and units. |
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HP Linux server units and revenue grew faster than the overall Linux market.
With a commanding revenue share of 38.6%, HP gained 3.9 percentage points of Linux server revenue share, year-over-year, and now leads nearest competitor, IBM, by 18.6 percentage points.
HP shipped 12.4 times the number of Linux servers than Sun.
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Fact 8: HP is #1 in high-end UNIX revenue share. |
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HP’s high-end UNIX revenue grew 8 times faster than the overall market resulting in HP gaining 5.5 points of revenue share, year-over-year.
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Fact 9: For the 3 major operating environments UNIX, Windows and Linux combined (representing 98.4% of all servers shipped worldwide); HP is number 1 worldwide in server unit shipment and revenue market share. |
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HP holds a 33.6% unit market share worldwide, which is 2.5 times more than IBM’s unit market share and 8.0 times the unit share of Sun.
HP holds a 33.1% revenue market share worldwide which is 2.3 times the revenue share of Dell and 2.6 times the revenue share of Sun.
36.0% of IBM’s worldwide revenue market share comes from their proprietary legacy mainframe line (System z Platform) and System i.
To learn more about HP servers see: http://www.hp.com/go/servers
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[1] Includes Compaq ProLiant from Q196 through Q202 and HP ProLiant from Q302 through Q306.
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Intel, Itanium and Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Linux is a U.S. registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. AMD Opteron is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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