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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
BANGALORE: Industry analyst firm IDC has ranked Hewlett-Packard number one in worldwide blade server factory and units shipped in its fourth calendar quarter 2006 study on the server market.
HP overtook IBM to lead the blade server market in the fourth quarter with 41.9 per cent factory revenue share and 40 per cent total factory units share, showing more than 10 times the growth of IBM in both units and revenue.
With regard to the total units shipped in the fourth quarter, HP’s share stands at 31.6 per cent. “IDC’s numbers show that HP continues to maintain its strength in the worldwide server market and our latest achievements in the blade server space underscore the tremendous market acceptance of HP’s breakthrough BladeSystem c-Class architecture,” said Mark Hudson, Vice President – Marketing, Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP, “We will continue to deliver innovation across our entire server portfolio and provide ustomers with a superior IT infrastructure that helps them drive business growth and lower costs.”
IDC has rated HP No. 1 in the Linux server vendor space and high-end UNIX server market segments, too.
© CIOL Bureau
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