* Note: IDC declares a statistical tie in the worldwide server market when there is less than one percent difference in the revenue share of two or more vendors.
In addition to the table above, an interactive graphic showing worldwide market share (based on factory revenue) for the top 5 server vendors for 2Q14 is available here. The chart is intended for public use in online news articles and social media. Instructions on how to embed this graphic can be found by viewing this press release on IDC.com.
Top Server Market Findings
- Demand for x86 servers improved in 2Q14 with revenues increasing 7.8% year over year in the quarter to $9.8 billion worldwide as unit shipments increased 1.5% to 2.2 million servers. HP led the market with 29.6% revenue share based on 7.4% revenue growth over 2Q13. Dell retained second place, securing 21.2% revenue share.
- Non-x86 servers experienced a revenue decline of -12.8% year over year to $2.7 billion, representing 21.8% of quarterly server revenue. This was the twelfth consecutive quarter of revenue decline in the non-x86 server segment. IBM leads the segment with 69.1% revenue share following a year-over-year revenue decrease of -13.9% when compared with the second quarter of 2013.
- Blade servers, which are highly leveraged in enterprises' virtualized and converged environments, increased 7.0% year over year to $2.1 billion. Blades now account for 17.0% of total server revenue. HP maintained the number 1 spot in the blade server market in 2Q14 with 42.2% revenue share; Cisco and IBM held the second and third positions in the blade market with 25.2% and 13.7% revenue share, respectively.
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Density-optimized servers, utilized by large homogeneous datacenters,
experienced a difficult year-over-year comparison due to several large
deployments that occurred in the second quarter of 2013. Revenue
declined -7.6% year over year to $768 million as unit shipments
decreased
-16.1% to 216,314 servers. Density-optimized servers represent 6.1% of all server revenue and 9.7% of all server shipments. - Regionally, Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) and Western Europe experienced the sharpest growth with year-over-year revenue increases of 6.9% and 6.0%, respectively. China continued to exhibit significant growth with year-over-year revenue up 19.4% to $1.8 billion. The top 4 Chinese OEMs -- Inspur, Huawei, Lenovo, and Sugon -- all grew revenue on a year-over-year basis by more than 35%.
"Modular servers – blades and density-optimized – represent distinct segments of growth for vendors in an otherwise mature market," said Jed Scaramella, Research Director, Enterprise Servers and Datacenter at IDC. "As the building block for integrated systems, blade servers will continue to drive enterprise customers along the evolutionary path toward private clouds. On the opposite side of the spectrum, density-optimized servers are being rapidly adopted by hyperscale datacenters that favor the scalability and efficiency of the form factor."
"Demand for servers in the public cloud continues to be a major driving force for server market growth," said Kuba Stolarski, Research Manager, Enterprise Servers at IDC. "While many of the largest of these companies have already undergone periodic datacenter expansions over the past year, public cloud demand for new servers will continue to outpace the general market in the immediate future. As these customers search for new ways to maximize datacenter efficiency, their technological choices may help accelerate emerging trends in low power and alternative server architectures."
IDC's Server Taxonomy
IDC's Server Taxonomy maps the eleven price bands within the server market into three price ranges: volume servers, midrange servers and high-end servers. The revenue data presented in this release is stated as vendor revenue for a server system. IDC presents data in vendor revenue to determine market share position. Vendor revenue represents those dollars recognized by multi-user system and server vendors for initial server shipments and upgrades sold through direct and indirect channels and includes the following embedded server components: frame or cabinet and all cables, processors, memory, communications boards, operating system software, other bundled software and initial internal and external disk shipments.
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker is a quantitative tool for analyzing the global server market on a quarterly basis. The Tracker includes quarterly shipments (both ISS and upgrades) and revenues (both customer and factory), segmented by vendor, family, model, region, operating system, price band, CPU type, and architecture. For more information, please contact Hoang Nguyen at 508-935-4718 or hnguyen@idc.com.
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