Worldwide server shipments grow by 13 percent.Worldwide server shipments for the second quarter of 2006 increased 12.8 percent over the same quarter last year, while worldwide server revenue for the same period climbed 2.5 percent, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner, Inc. Worldwide server revenue totaled $12.4 billion for the quarter, as worldwide servers shipments reached 2 million units. "The two server categories that exhibited the greatest strengths were x86 and blade servers A server architecture that houses multiple server modules ("blades") in a single chassis. It is widely used in datacenters to save space and improve system management. Either self-standing or rack mounted, the chassis provides the power supply, and each blade has its own CPU, memory and ," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research director at Gartner. "x86 servers and x86 blade servers continue to be the systems of choice for growing the front and middle tiers (1) Generally refers to the processing that takes place in an application server that sits between the user's machine and the database server. The middle tier server performs the business logic. See application server and client/server. of the Web infrastructure." "RISC-Itanium Unix servers A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. grew 1.8 percent in shipments for the quarter but dropped a more significant 2.6 percent in revenue," Mr. Hewitt said. "This segment continues to be hotly contested on a global basis, but suffered from constrained con·strain tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains 1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force. 2. revenue overall in the second quarter." 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) continued to lead the worldwide server market based on revenue IBM's System x/x Series and System z/z Series grew during the second quarter of 2006, but it experienced declines in System i/i Series and System p/p Series which resulted in a slight overall revenue decline of 1.7 percent. IBM did manage to increase its shipments 13.8 percent, which allowed it to gain one-tenth of one percent of worldwide server shipment share for the quarter. IBM retained its overall blade server lead in revenue and shipments as its blade server shipments increased 45.4 percent in the quarter. www.gartner.com |
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