European server market powers down says Gartner

31.08.2012
European server sales and shipments were well down in the second quarter, says analyst Gartner.

While worldwide server shipments grew 1.4 percent over the second quarter of 2011, with revenue declining 2.9 percent over the same period, the EMEA region saw far worse results as the European economy continued to falter.

Gartner analyst Jeffrey Hewitt said, "In terms of revenue growth, only Asia/Pacific and the United States produced growth for the quarter, all other regions declined."

In shipments the US saw an 8.4 percent increase, and revenue growth stood at 6.5 percent for the period.

In EMEA server shipments totalled more than 585,000 units in the second quarter of 2012, a decrease of 4.4 percent from last year. Server revenue totalled $3.3 billion in the second quarter but this was a big drop of 11.6 percent from last year.

As in the first quarter of 2012 Dell continued to be the only top-five vendor to achieve revenue growth, with the other four suffering declines.