How is x86 stirring the Indian server mkt

MUMBAI, INDIA: With a market size of $190Mn, India market witnessed a year on year growth of 18.2 percent during the second quarter of 2011. This revenue growth translated into an annual shipment growth of 22 percent for the same period. In terms of vendor landscape, HP (37 per cent), IBM (30 per cent) and Dell (nine per cent) emerged as the top three vendors this quarter, in terms of revenue, tells Gartner.

x86, with a revenue share of 69 per cent this quarter, emerged as the leading market driver, which is driven by various factors such as virtualization, workload migration from other technologies such as Unix. Changing enterprise behavior around x86 lead to an annual x86 shipment growth of 23.1 per cent in the same time frame, which is in line with the global trends. On the other hand, Unix market observed an annual revenue decline of six per cent, as compared to last year though this market performed relatively better as compared to last quarter, fuelled by server procurement in Banks and public sector organizations. Gartner Says Asia Pacific Server Shipments Increased 25.6 Per cent; Revenue Grew 26.1 Per cent in Second Quarter of 2011

“We saw Asia Pacific as the strongest region for server shipment growth during the second quarter of 2011,” said Erica Gadjuli, principal research analyst at Gartner. “The spotlight very much remained on the China market.”

Internet companies in China continued to build up their cloud infrastructure, one of the significant driving factors for healthy server demand in the second quarter. Servers shipped to China increased 33 per cent from the same quarter in 2010 while revenue was up 29 per cent.  

All server categories, including RISC/Itanium Unix, mainframe class and x86-based, attained positive revenue growth on year on year basis in second quarter 2011. However, the x86 server segment continued to gain market share in both shipments and revenue, compared to both last quarter and the same quarter last year. This segment represented 65 percent of total revenue and 98 per cent of total servers shipped in Asia Pacific, compared to 61 per cent and 97 per cent in the second quarter of 2010.