Modern number from Gartner show that computer server sales slowed in the third quarter , a movement the research company attribute to virtualization .
Gartner ’s latest study on host , released Tuesday , present that worldwide sales event grew by 4.4 percent , base on revenue , to just over US$ 13 billion , and 9.1 per centum by unit bulk , to 2 billion servers . In the 2nd quarter , sales rose 2.5 percent by revenue and 12.8 percent by social unit intensity .
“ We have seen double - digit increment in the past , ” said Jeff Hewitt , research director for Gartner . “ waiter sales are still uprise , but because of virtualization , customers do n’t have to buy as many server . ”
Virtualization makes it potential to run more programs on one physical server , using more of its content and prepare it potential for a data center to treat more work with few servers .
Among the host vendors , market ploughshare rankings remained the same in Gartner ’s numbers game , which cover the three - month geological period ended Sept. 30 , compare with premature quartern .
IBM retained the market share lead , with 33.7 pct , base on a 7.4 percent revenue amplification to $ 4.38 billion , from the third twenty-five percent of 2005 . Hewlett - Packard followed with 25.3 percent market plowshare on a 6 pct fall in revenue to $ 3.29 billion . Dell range third with a 10.8 per centum share on a 10.2 per centum receipts gain to $ 1.41 billion . Sun rank fourth with a 10.1 percent part based on a 24.7 pct revenue gain to $ 1.31 billion . Fujitsu outrank fifth , with a 4.9 percent share on a 5.6 percent revenue addition to $ 634 million . Other vendors combine for a 15.3 pct share based on 6.5 pct tax income growth to $ 1.99 billion .
Hewitt attributed Sun ’s resurgence to the introduction of new servers running the Opteron microprocessor from Advanced Micro Devices , which has emerged as a unattackable contender to the processors from Intel .
In sales based on unit of measurement volume , HP lead the way with a 26.5 percent share base on 7.2 percent growth to 540,609 unit ; Dell place second with a 22.5 percent portion on 10.5 percent emergence to 459,950 ; IBM third with 16.3 percent share on 7.7 percent growth to 332,777 ; Sun Microsystems fourth with a 4.1 percentage share on a 6.4 per centum increment to 83,018 units ; and Fujitsu twenty percent with a 3.2 percent , based on a decline of 5.9 pct to 65,171 . Other server brands jointly report 27.5 pct share on growth of 13.4 percent to 560,913 units .
Estimated Global Server Vendor Revenue
Source : Gartner Inc.
Virtualization became popular on the Mac with Apple ’s Intel - ground estimator . Parallels , which has already released its virtualization computer software , will confront competition from others like VMWare that announced its intent to enter the burgeoning Mac food market .
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