Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that the global server market has tanked for the second consecutive quarter,
Both revenues and shipments have fallen in the third-quarter. Revenues declined 6.7 per cent year on year to $22 billion while shipments were down by 3.7 per cent to just under 3.1 million units.
Despite the decline, it was still the second-best quarter of volume shipments in history, IDC claims.
IDC a senior research analyst in infrastructure platforms and technologies at Paul Maguranis said: “In fact, third-quarter 2019 represented the second-biggest quarter for global server unit shipments in more than 16 years, eclipsed only by third-quarter of 2018. While the server market did indeed decline last quarter, next-generation workloads and advanced server innovation keep demand for enterprise compute at near historic highs.”
Nonetheless, global server sales started trending downwards in the second quarter, for the first time in more than two years.
In a neck-and-neck draw, Dell and HPE captured 17.2 per cent and 16.8 per cent revenue share, respectively. The third-ranking server vendor was Inspur Power Systems, which took nine per cent.
