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Follow UsThe company increased its lead as the number one x86 blade server vendor in CYQ2, 2007 with 41.3 per cent total factory revenue share, a year-over-year factory revenue growth rate of 85.2 per cent.
HP also consolidated its leadership position in unit shipments share by capturing 44.7 per cent of the market in the same period, HP said in a release.
In CYQ2, 2007, HP maintained the top position in x86 server shipments for 21 consecutive quarters (since CYQ2, 2002) securing 30.3 per cent unit shipments share of the market. In addition, HP led in factory revenue terms across key server segments capturing 30.4 per cent share of Windows servers, 30.4 per cent of Linux servers and 80.8 per cent of EPIC (Itanium) servers sold in Asia Pacific (inc. Japan) region in Q2 2007.
In the Asia Pacific (inc. Japan) total disk storage market, HP ranked No. 1 in terabytes shipments with 23.0 per cent market share. HP maintained leadership position in terabytes shipments with 19.9 percent market share in the external disk storage market.
"Our continued leadership in blade servers underscores the tremendous market acceptance of HP's breakthrough energy efficient BladeSystem c-Class architecture," said Anthony McMahon, vice president, Enterprise Storage and Servers, Technology Solutions Group, HP Asia Pacific and Japan. "HP will continue to deliver innovations across our ProLiant, Integrity, BladeSystem and StorageWorks portfolio aimed at solving our customer's data center challenges with solutions such as dynamic smart cooling, infrastructure management and virtualization."
In the worldwide blade server market, HP significantly increased its lead as the top vendor in CYQ2, 2007 period with 47.2 per cent total factory revenues share and a year-over-year factory revenues growth rate of 71.9 per cent.
According to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, August 2007, HP held number one position in unit shipments for the 21st straight quarter, increasing its server units by 17.4 per cent year-over-year in CYQ2, 2007.