The relentless demand for data has resulted in another robust quarter for the global server market. This has lead to Record Revenues from servers. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), vendor revenue in the global server market surged 37.7 % year-over-year to reach US$23.4 billion during the third quarter of 2018 (3Q18). Meanwhile, global server shipments increased 18.3 % year-over-year…
“The worldwide server market once again generated strong revenue and unit shipment growth due to an ongoing enterprise refresh cycle. This continued demand from cloud service providers,” says IDC Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies research manager Sebastian Lagana.
This is the fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server market, with 3Q18 being its highest total revenue in a single quarter ever.
Volume server revenue increased by 40.2 % to $20 billion, while midrange server revenue grew 39.4 % to $2 billion. High-end systems grew 6.9 % to $1.3 billion.
In terms of the types of servers, demand for x86 servers increased 41% in 3Q18 to reach $21.8 billion in revenues. Non-x86 servers on the other hand grew just 3.9 % year-over-year to reach $1.6 billion.
Source: https://datacentrenews.eu/story/record-revenues-from-servers-selling-like-hot-cakes