* IDC declares a statistical tie in the worldwide server market when there is a difference of one percent or less in the share of revenues or shipments among two or more vendors.
** Due to the existing joint venture between HPE and the New H3C Group, IDC will be reporting external market share on a global level for HPE and New H3C Group as "HPE/New H3C Group" starting from 2Q 2016 and going forward.
Top Server Market Findings
On a geographic basis, Canada was the fastest growing region in 4Q17 with 69.7% year-over-year growth. The United States grew 29.6%, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) grew 17.4%, and Latin America declined 5.0%. Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan and China) grew 38.2%, China grew 33.8%, and Japan grew 4.3%.
Demand for x86 servers increased 24.7% in 4Q17 with $17.5 billion in revenues. Non-x86 servers grew 36.4% year over year to $3.2 billion.
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 ISS (initial server shipment) and upgrade units 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 Quarterly Server Tracker is a quantitative tool for analyzing the global server market on a quarterly basis. The Tracker includes quarterly unit shipments and revenues (both vendor revenue and value of shipments), segmented by vendor, family, model, region, operating system, price band, CPU type, and architecture.
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