12.1% revenue increase in servers

IDC has recently announced the revenue in the worldwide server market has increased 12.1% year-on-year to $11.9 billion in the first quarter of 2011.

Server unit shipments increased 2.5% to 1.9 million units across all three server classes; volume, midrange enterprise and high-end enterprise. This is the first time in eight quarters that all three segments have seen an increase.

This is evidence that all server systems remain important to business customers for a wide range of needs in their datacentres.

HP stayed in the number one position with 31.5% revenue share. HP’s 10.8% revenue growth was led by x86-based ProLiant servers.

The blade server market was also dominated by HP with 50% revenue share as well as the x86 server market – with 37.7% revenue share and an 11.6% year-on-year growth.

HP and VMware have been working together for over 10 years with the result that more VMware is deployed on HP than any other platform.

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