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USING IMPECCABLE if slightly banal logic, IDC has declared that the drop in worldwide server shipments resulted in an across the board revenue slump for server makers in the first quarter.

The market research outfit reckons server unit shipments dropped off by a whopping 26.5 per cent year-on-year in Q109 to just 1.49 million units, the steepest slump in half a decade. Similarly, revenue was down 24.5 percent to a paltry $9.9 billion in the first three months of the year.

X86 servers purportedly felt the blow harder than lower-end Unix servers, with x86 revenue falling 28.8 percent to $5.1 billion, whilst non-x86 servers fell by 19.4 percent to $4.8 billion. This, IDC posited, was probably due to the fact Unix OSes deal mainly with mission-critical workloads, rather than faffing about with more generic tasks like e-mail, print and web serving which can easily be virtualised anyway.

With the banking sector having rebooted earlier on this year, economic conditions not necessarily being wonderful and that dangerous concept of many finding that their existing servers are good enough, there has been a report about server shipments falling. An interesting read, do check it out.

We’ll have to see, I think we’ll see this change in the near future, the new Intel processor has some impressive performance and energy efficient statistics, (just compare a DL380 G4 and G6 for energy efficiency and you’ll see what I mean), combine that with Windows 2008, further movements into virtualization and I think we’ll see sales improve. At the same time, the banks that have been merging, getting bought out or selling elements of their business will all need integrated to their new homes, they’ll need new servers bought to our standards, coupled with on going business requirements as well those white labelling products and service we see in the finance, trading and insurance markets kicking off.

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