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VIRTUALISATION Server revenue decline worst in 13 years
VIRTUALISATION Server revenue decline worst in 13 years | Server revenue decline worst in 13 years |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Tuesday, 02 June 2009 | |
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Nathaniel Martinez, IDC program director for European systems and infrastructure solutions, says both the industry standard and the enterprise segments declined by around 34% year on year, and, he adds, that the pace of revenue decline was very similar in the x86 and non-x86 areas, differing from the worldwide server market trend, which showed slower declines in the enterprise, or non-x86, server segment, and particularly mainframes. According to Martinez, midrange servers were the best-performing server class, with a decline of 27.8% in 1Q09 over 1Q08, well below the market average. However, he reports that high-end servers recorded the steepest decline - 40.4% annually - while volume servers were down 34.2% over the year-ago period. “These figures reflected the decline in CISC revenue, and the stabilisation of the RISC space. By sub-region, countries in the Central and Eastern European area suffered the worst annual revenue declines, with sales down 43.7% - an unusual development in a geography that has been growing at a faster pace than Western Europe, which is a mature market in comparison. “It was the first time that CEE declined faster than WE since 2003.” CONTINUED page 2 |
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