According to recent report from Gartner, Worldwide server shipments in the second quarter of 2011 grew 8% year on year, while revenue moved upward 19.5% year on year. From a geographic standpoint, the Asia/Pacific region grew the most in shipments with a 25.6% increase. Japan posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 59.5% for the period. HP lead the worldwide server market based on revenue. The company posted over $3.9bn in server vendor revenue, accounting for 29.8% of the server market based on revenue. This share was down 2.2% year on year.Read More…

In the first quarter of 2011, worldwide server shipments grew 8.5 percent year-on-year, while revenue increased 17.3 percent, according to Gartner, Inc. In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the first quarter of 2011 with a year-on-year shipment increase of 2.3 percent for the quarter. This growth was driven by increases produced from HP’s ProLiant brand. HP’s worldwide server shipment share was 29.8 percent, representing a 1.8 percent drop in share from the same quarter in 2010.

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