Global server shipments grow by 9.2% Y-o-Y while revenues increase by 7.5% Y-o-Y in Q3 2015, Gartner reports, even as currency exchange rates affect the market in some regions-- including E. Europe.
"Q3 2015 produced growth on a global level with mixed results by region," the analyst says. "All regions showed growth in both shipments and vendor revenue, except for E. Europe, Japan and Latin America, which posted revenue declines of -5.8%, -11.7% and -24.2%, respectively, for the period."
HP leads the server market in terms of revenues (reaching $3.7 billion with 9.1% Y-o-Y growth), as it commands 25.4% global server revenue share. Dell follows with revenues worth $2.4bn and 9% Y-o-Y growth, while 3rd placing IBM is the only top 5 vendors facing revenue declines (-42.8%) due to the x86 division sale to Lenovo.
HP also leads in shipments (6.1 million units with 7.7% growth), followed by Dell (5m units, 2.1% growth) and Lenovo (2.4m units, 183.2% growth).
"x86 servers managed to produce an increase with growth of 9.2% in shipments and 9.7% in revenue year over year," Gartner adds. "RISC/Itanium Unix server revenue declined -11.5% in Q3 2015, while shipments grew 1.1%. The 'other' CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 3.5% in terms of revenue."
