Server sales continue and long may they continue to do so

IT Jungle

Sales and shipments of servers in the European, African, and Middle Eastern region of the world grew faster than the global average in the second quarter of the year, according to statistics released by IDC, pushed upward by sales in Central and Eastern Europe and providing economic sanctuary for U.S.-based server makers. Server revenues in Q2 rose by 8.7 billion to $4.5 billion, and shipments rose by 12.4 percent to nearly 700,000 units.

According to IDC, x64 machinery accounted for 95.5 percent of total server shipments in the quarter throughout the EMEA region, a statistic that has been pretty steady for years on a global basis and in most regions. Revenue growth certainly is not steady across EMEA, with Central and Eastern Europe seeing 17.8 percent revenue growth, the Middle East and Africa seeing 16.1 percent growth, and the much larger but more slowly growing Western European region seeing only 6.8 percent growth.

An interesting article about blade and server shipments in the EMEA markets. It’s always great to see what differences there are between the regions, what each markets requirements are, how doing business changes between the markets. The concept of a ‘green site’ - they don’t do rack servers, they do blades, or they don’t do rack servers, they tend to buy blades. It’s all very cool and great to know how people are using the technology, how they do business.