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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 05 September 2007 | |
  
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The company also came out on top by volume and revenue in midrange enterprise servers and Unix servers. It managed the number one position in high-end enterprise servers by volume, but was edged into second place on revenue by IBM. "Our achievement in taking on the number one server position in Australia is indicative of strong interest in enterprise consolidation and virtualisation platforms as well as the growth of Solaris," said Gary Kelly, head of Sun's systems practice for Australia and New Zealand. Kelly suggested that Sun's adoption of energy-efficient technologies contributed to the company's success in the high-end market. "Sun's historical and continued investment in eco innovation enables our customers to significantly cut energy consumption in the data centre," he added. Sun did not fare so well in the volume server segment, where it was ranked fourth on both volume and revenue. "HP was the dominant vendor in the volume server segment, both in unit shipment and revenue terms due to its extremely strong positioning in the x86 server segment," said Rajnish Arora, IDC's research director for Asia/Pacific enterprise servers and workstations research. "x86 servers accounted for more than 90 percent of the volume server shipments and revenues in Australia in Q2 2007." IDC defines high-end enterprise servers as those costing $US500,000 or more, with midrange enterprise servers priced between $US25,000 and $US499,000. Volume servers are those that sell for less than $US25,000. |
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