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Bangalore
May 25th, 2007
Hewlett-Packard (HP), once again held sway with a leadership position in the
total server units shipped in the first calendar quarter of 2007, according to
analyst firm IDC. This is HP's twentieth consecutive quarter of leadership in
server shipment.
HP grew overall server shipments by 16.6 per cent in the first quarter with a
growth rate faster than the top 10 vendors. Its ProLiant, Integrity and
BladeSystem families captured 33.6 per cent shipment share in the first quarter.
"The strong growth in ProLiant, Integrity and BladeSystem shows not only
the breadth and value of our portfolio, but also the strong customer acceptance
from midsized businesses through large enterprises and high-performance
computing customers," said Mark Hudson, VP of marketing, Enterprise Storage
and Servers, HP.
While HP again tied for No. 1 in worldwide Q1 server factory revenue for the
third year in a row, it also maintained the lead as the top x86 server vendor.
It showed continued leadership as the number one blade server vendor in the
first quarter with 45.1 per cent total shipment share, a year-over-year growth
of 84.9 per cent.
Fueled by its BladeSystem c-Class architecture and the use of blades in the
high-performance computing market, the company took more than five points of
sequential market share at the expense of IBM and Dell in the first quarter and
outpaced the whole worldwide blade server market.
"Results from IDC demonstrate HP's formidable strength as a technology
provider and confirm that we're meeting and exceeding customer needs,"
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