IBM has a growth challenge for both its System z and Power servers made no easier by the stochastic nature of its business with users unlikely to spend much in the quarters leading up to new processor introductions. Lenovo and Huawei have both been climbing in recent years, Cisco has reached a plateau with its rack-based virtualized machines, while Oracle has indeed seen a revival in the recent past. Linux will also grow in the server market, although its main use is at the heart of the systems used by cloud service providers.ĭell EMC now leads the market by a considerable margin over HPE, which was a long term leader (see my Figure above for the quarterly positions of the leading seven venodrs on a rolling four quarter basis). I also expect HPE and Huawei to grow their business as they pursue the industrial and Asia Pacific markets respectively.
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Dell’s business took a significant boost from its acquisition of EMC in 2015.
This is not a sign of decline in an enterprise market being overcome by cloud computing rather it shows a return to normal levels following the spate of new processors and scarce and expensive memory and storage devices the previous year. The server market took a pause in the last year – spending for the year was down 1% at $81b, while in the quarter it was down 11% at $19b.