Global Q2 2013 server revenues drop by -6.2% Y-o-Y to $11.9 billion IDC reports-- a second consecutive quarter of Y-o-Y revenue declines as server demand remains soft in most geographical regions.
Server unit shipments decline by -1.2% Y-o-Y to 2.0 million units, making Q2 2013 the third consecutive quarter of Y-o-Y server shipment declines.
Volume system revenues drop by -2.4% Y-o-Y, midrange server revenues decline by -22.3% Y-o-Y and high-end systems are down by -9.5%, with relatively difficult Y-o-Y compares combined with transitions in technology refresh cycles.
"Mainstream SMB and enterprise server customers around the world continue to focus on consolidation, virtualisation, and migration initiatives aimed at increasing efficiency and lowering datacentre infrastructure costs." IDC says. "At the same time, challenging economic conditions are dampening demand for new IT projects necessary to grow the server market globally... [T]he competitive dynamics in the server market remain fierce as the leading server vendors work to offset weak demand for generally higher margin Unix and blade servers with lower margin rack and density optimized servers." Read more...