The second quarter of 2010, worldwide server sales Comments

IDC market research report released Wednesday said the computer server sales in the second quarter of this year, up 11% to 109 million, an increase of two consecutive quarters, is the server market since 2003, the fastest growing quarter. The report shows that server shipments up 23.8%, slightly higher than the 23% increase in the first quarter, was 5 years the fastest growing quarter. Low-end server sales rose 31.7%, for 3 consecutive quarters of growth; mid-range server revenue grew 15.6% in the past nine quarters the first time in growth; but high-end enterprise server revenue fell 27.3%, the continuous field 7 quarterly decline. Mainstream vendors, Hewlett-Packard the highest share, 32.5%, strong demand for its x86 ProLiant servers, shares rose nearly 4 percentage points; IBM ranked second, 29.8% market share; Dell ranked third, driven by strong demand for enterprise customer...