EMEA server revenues growth.The EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. server market continued to exhibit healthy growth in sales in the first quarter of 2007, after increasing factory revenue by 11%, compared to the same quarter of the previous year, to more than $4.2 billion, with a corresponding rise in shipments of 8% to 600,000 units, according to IDC's EMEA Quarterly Server Tracker service. "Server revenue continued to be driven by consolidation efforts, SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. sales, blades, and large infrastructure projects* Sales of more richly configured servers resulted in rising average ASVs for the second consecutive quarter. In forthcoming quarters we will see wider adoption of quadcore processors, impacting prices and also the level of shipments," said Beatriz Valle, research analyst with IDC's European Enterprise Servers group. Meanwhile, the CEMA CEMA Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association CEMA Chef d'Etat-Major des Armees CEMA Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association CEMA Canadian Egg Marketing Agency CEMA Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts region (Central and Eastern Europe The term "Central and Eastern Europe" came into wide spread use, replacing "Eastern bloc", to describe former Communist countries in Europe, after the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989/90. and Middle East and Africa) exhibited year-on-year revenue growth of 12% in 1Q07. "Thanks to continued IT spending in both the public and private sectors, the CEE cee n. The letter c. region had the highest revenue growth," said Stefania Lorenz, program manager, Hardware and Systems, CEMA. "The MEA MEA Multiple endocrine adenomatosis. See Multiple endocrine neoplasia. region remained buoyant thanks to demand for x86 servers--especially blade servers--although spending was down in the Unix server market." Sales of bladed servers grew by 49% annually. The MEA region saw the highest revenue increase. The relationship between blades and virtualization has been tighter than expected. IDC Top Server Market Findings * Linux growth continued unabated with an annual sales increase of 42% and its strongest performance in the Western European region to date. Windows displayed an annual revenue increase of 13% while waiting for the full impact of the Longhorn The code name for the Windows Vista operating system. After the client version was renamed "Vista" in 2005, Longhorn referred to the server version until it was officially named Windows Server 2008 in May of 2007. See Windows Vista. launch in forthcoming quarters. Unix displayed flat revenue growth thanks largely to its sales in the CEE region, and despite decreases in the rest of EMEA. * Sales of x86 servers surpassed the $2 billion mark, almost on par with non-x86 server sales. There have been multiple x86 technology introductions over recent quarters that have driven higher levels of compute into this area. EPIC was the fastest-growing processor, increasing its revenue by 54% over the year-ago period. IDC Market Findings by Vendor * Despite difficulties faced by AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. in the past quarter, sales of Opteron-based servers reached nearly $300 million, growing by 60% in EMEA in 1Q07. * HP was the leading vendor after growing its revenue 15% annually thanks to a very strong performance across the Integrity, Integrity Non-Stop, and ProLiant servers. IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) lagged slightly, thanks to strong sales from System P and System zServers, as well as System X. * Sun held on to its 11% revenue market share with very strong growth in the x86 area. Dell and Fujitsu Siemens each lost one percentage point of share over the year-ago period, as the former prepares an aggressive channel program to target the indirect sales market during the coming quarters. Top 5 Vendors Hewlett-Packard 15% IBM 13% Sun Microsystems 13% Dell 8% Fujitsu Siemens 2% www.idc.com |
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