STAMFORD, Conn. – In the second quarter of 2015, worldwide

server shipments grew 8 percent year over year, while revenue increased 7.2

percent from the second quarter of 2014, Gartner reported Tuesday.

 

“The second quarter year-over-year growth for 2015 slowed

compared with the annual growth of the first quarter of the year,” said

Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. “Currency exchange

rate changes have started to show their impact by reducing relative spending

power in regions like Western Europe. It is likely that in anticipation of

further currency rate shifts that some organizations utilized their budgets

earlier in the year rather than waiting until the third or fourth quarters when

their purchasing power may be further reduced by these relative currency

changes.

 

“x86 server shipments increased 8.3 percent in the

second quarter of 2015 and revenue grew 9 percent. RISC/Itanium Unix server

shipments declined 18.7 percent globally for the period, while RISC/Itanium

revenue declined 9.7 percent compared with the same quarter last year. The

‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 7.8

percent,” Hewitt said.

 

From the regional standpoint, North America grew the most

significantly in shipments with a 14.8 percent increase. The region also posted

the highest vendor revenue growth at 14.7 percent for the period.

 

HP maintained its No. 1 ranking in the worldwide server

market based on revenue with a 25.2 percent market share. Lenovo

experienced the largest increase in the second quarter of 2015 with 526.5

percent growth in revenue. All of the top five global vendors had revenue

increases for the second quarter of 2015 except IBM.

 

 

In server shipments, HP remained the

worldwide leader in the second quarter of 2015 with a

year-over-year shipment increase of 2.5 percent. HP’s worldwide server shipment

share was 21.7 percent, representing a 1.2 percent drop in share from the same

quarter in 2014.

 

Of the top five vendors in server

shipments worldwide, all produced shipment increases except for Dell.