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Global server sales up 17 percent in Q4
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 26 February 2011, 15:14 IST
Bangalore: Continuing the yearlong recovery, worldwide sales of servers have increased by nearly 17 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, reveals a new report from the research firm Gartner.
Revenue for all types of servers grew 16.4 percent from a year earlier while the vendor profit has increased by more than 13 percent. The number of servers delivered grew 6.5 percent in the quarter.
IBM topped the revenue chart for the fourth quarter of 2010 with $5.2 billion in sales, which is about 35.5 percent of the market. IBM's server sales have gone up 26.4 percent from the same period in 2009. Hewlett Packard came second in sales with a total revenue of $4.5 billion which is an increase of 12.8 percent from the previous year. Dell was the third biggest company in revenue which saw an increase of 26.4 percent in sales with a revenue of $1.9 billion. Placed at fourth, Oracle suffered a 16.2 percent sales decline, to $806 million.
The research company also suggested that the worldwide server market is likely to continue its growth in 2011, but at lower levels as the replacement cycle cools.