Server shipments in India grew 18.8 pc during Q3, 2014

BANGALORE, INDIA: In the third quarter of 2014, worldwide server shipments grew 1 percent year-over-year, while revenue moved upward 1.7 percent from the third quarter of 2013, according to Gartner, Inc.

"The third quarter of 2014 produced modest growth on a global level, highlighting positive but constrained demand," said Errol Rasit, research director at Gartner. "Only North America and Asia Pacific exhibited shipments growth, largely driven by demand from hyperscale organizations located there. These results support the continued bifurcation of enterprise and consumer services server demand."

Asia/Pacific posted the highest shipment growth at 8.7 percent and 7.5 percent increase in revenue.

“Server shipments in India grew 18.8 percent during the third quarter of 2014, resulting in a revenue increase of 14 percent,” said Nandita Iyer, research analyst at Gartner. “Most of this growth is being fueled by hardware refresh and consolidation efforts, which slowed down during the first half of 2014. Though x86 servers fuelled the growth in third quarter with 18.9 percent year on year shipment growth, Unix-based hardware revenue also grew by 7.6 percent as compared to last year.”

“Overall, the Indian server market is expected to remain flat for 2014 and return to positive growth in 2015 with a revenue forecast of $677 million, growth of 3.3 percent compared to 2014. Gartner expects that this growth will mainly come from data center and infrastructure modernization investments, mobility solutions, consolidation and virtualization, “ said Naveen Mishra, research director at Gartner.

In terms of vendor performance, HP occupied the first spot, followed by Dell and IBM, in terms of server revenue in India. HP dominated the market with its strong leadership in x86 server market.

"x86 servers managed to grow 1.2 percent in units and 7.4 percent in revenue in the third quarter of 2014," said Rasit. "RISC/Itanium Unix server shipments declined 17.1 percent globally for the period and declined 8.0 percent in vendor revenue compared with the same quarter last year."

Of the top five vendors in server shipments worldwide, all produced shipment increases except for HP and IBM. Cisco experienced the highest growth in the third quarter with 30.8 percent.