Dive Brief:
- Gartner’s third quarter figures for server shipments show HP is still the leader, with 22.2% of the market.
- However, HP’s server shipments market share has slowed, says Gartner.
- For the third quarter, Gartner's "others" column had more server revenue – at 30.5% – than any other vendor, compared to HP's 27.3%.
Dive Insight:
Overall in the third quarter, worldwide server shipments grew 9.2% from the third quarter of 2014, while vendor revenue increased 7.5%.
Gartner says “white label vendors,” which often supply data centers that run cloud services, have been challenging the traditional big names in the market. Gartner’s "others" category is now close to half of shipments market share, with 42.4%. That compares to HP's 22.2% shipment market share.
"The third quarter of 2015 produced growth on a global level with mixed results by region," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. "All regions showed growth in both shipments and vendor revenue, except for Eastern Europe, Japan and Latin America, which posted revenue declines of 5.8 percent, 11.7% and 24.2%, respectively, for the period. Currency exchange rates are one of the main reasons for the disparity in regional server market performance."
Lenovo and Huawei saw the biggest growth in shipments. Lenovo now has 8.8% share of shipments and Huawei has 4.9%, according to Gartner.
Gartner said the server market may continue to see big changes, as more buyers of servers are building cloud architectures and want to use low-cost servers rather than premium servers that traditional server brands like HP make.
