According to Gartner global Q2 2015 server shipments are up by 8% Y-o-Y to reach 2.7 million units, while revenues total $13.6 billion with 7.2% Y-o-Y growth.
"Q2 2015 Y-o-Y growth slowed compared with the annual growth of Q1 2015," the analyst says. "Currency exchange rate changes have started to show their impact by reducing relative spending power in regions like W. Europe. It is likely that in anticipation of further currency rate shifts that some organisations utilised their budgets earlier in the year rather than waiting until Q3 or Q4 when their purchasing power may be further reduced by these relative currency changes."
x86 shipments for the quarter are up by 8.3% Y-o-Y and revenues grow by 9%. RISC/Itanium Unix server shipments and revenues are down by -18.7% and -9.7% respectively, while the "other" CPU category (primarily servers) shows a 7.8% Y-o-Y increase.
HP leads the global server rankings in terms of both revenues and shipments, taking 25.2% Q2 2015 revenue share as shipments grow by 2.5% Y-o-Y. However it also sees a 1.2% server shipment share drop to 21.7%.
Fourth placing Lenovo experiences the largest Q2 2015 revenue growth, 526% Y-o-Y.
All vendors in the global top 5 record Q2 2015 revenue increases except IBM, whose revenues are down by -34.3% Y-o-Y. When it comes to shipments Dell is the only vendor to see declines (-0.4% Y-o-Y).