August 2013
May 2013: IDC released a quarterly update to their Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, citing market share figures for the 1st calendar quarter of 2013 (1Q13).
Consider these telling facts:
(Source: All of the following market share figures are for the 1st quarter of CY 2013 (1Q13) – unless otherwise noted – and represent worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 1Q13, May 2013).
Fact 1: HP is the #1 vendor in worldwide server revenue share.
HP’s worldwide factory revenue share was 26.9%.
Fact 2: For 11 consecutive years, 44 straight quarters, HP is the #1 vendor in worldwide server shipments.
HP shipped more than 61,000 more servers than Dell, 2.7 times as many servers as IBM, 7.8 times as Fujitsu, 10.7 times as many as Cisco and 35 times as many as Oracle in 1Q13.
HP shipped more than 4 servers per minute to customers in 1Q13 (24×7).
Fact 3: HP has a commanding lead in the total blade server market, with a 44.6% revenue share and 45.9% unit share worldwide. HP has led the blade server market for 26 consecutive quarters, 6 ½ years.
HP gained 1.1 points of unit share year over year.
HP shipped 2.9 times as many blades as Cisco, 3.5 times as many as IBM and 4.1 times as many as Dell in 1Q13.
Fact 4: For 17 consecutive years, 68 quarters, HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units [1]
HP’s x86 revenue share, 31.6%, was 7.3 percentage points higher than its nearest competitor Dell and 17.6 percentage points higher than IBM and 26.2 percentage points higher than Cisco.
Fact 5: HP is the number 1 supplier of Itanium (EPIC) based systems based on worldwide factory revenue.
HP Integrity blades maintained the number 1 position in revenue for the RISC+EPIC blade segment with 62.2% worldwide factory revenue share.
Fact 6: HP is #1 in Windows® revenue and units worldwide.
HP has a commanding 34.7% revenue share of the Windows market and leads over the nearest competitor, Dell, by 8.3 percentage points.
Fact 7: HP is #1 in Linux® revenue worldwide.
In terms of Linux revenue share HP leads over Dell by 4.9 percentage points and IBM by 10.2 points.
Fact 8: For the 3 major operating environments UNIX, Windows and Linux combined (representing 99.9% of all servers shipped worldwide), HP is number 1 worldwide in server revenue and unit shipments.
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[1]Includes Compaq ProLiant from 1Q96 through 2Q02 and HP ProLiant from 3Q02 through 1Q13. Source: the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for 1Q13, May 2013.
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