Asia-Pacific posted 3.3% increase in server revenue in Q1

Asia-Pacific region has posted a 3.3 per cent rise in server revenue and 18 per cent increase in server shipments in the first quarter of 2014, according to IT research and advisory company Gartner.
In Japan, shipments increased by 13.5 per cent, but revenue declined by 9.2 per cent while in Western Europe shipments declined by 4.8 per cent and revenues rose 6.7 per cent, Gartner said in a report.
Worldwide server shipments grew 1.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2014, while server revenue declined 4.1 per cent year-over-year.
"The first quarter of 2014 produced relatively weak growth on a global level with a variation in results by region," said vice president, Research, Gartner, Jeffrey Hewitt.

"x86 servers managed to produce an increase with growth of 1.7 per cent in units for the year and 2.8 per cent in revenue," Hewitt said.
"RISC/Itanium Unix servers fell globally in the first quarter of 2014-down 19.9 per cent in shipments and a 16.9 per cent decline in vendor revenue compared with the same quarter last year. The 'other' CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed a decline of 37.6 per cent year-over-year in terms of revenue, he added.

HP led the worldwide server market in revenue terms in the first quarter of 2014. The company ended the quarter with USD 2.9 billion in revenue, for a total share of 25.5 per cent worldwide. This was down 2.3 per cent compared with the same quarter in 2013, the survey said.

Cisco was the only company among top five that increased revenue in the first quarter of 2014, with growth of 37 per cent compared with the same quarter in 2013.
In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the first quarter of 2014 even though its shipments declined 7.9 per cent compared with the first quarter of 2013.