Gartner Says Asia Pacific Server Market Continued Its Momentum as Shipments Increased 15.6 Percent in Second Quarter 2008
Published: 09/02/2008
In the second quarter of 2008, Asia Pacific server shipments posted another healthy growth of 15.6 percent year-on-year. Revenue increased 5.4 percent year-on-year, according to Gartner, Inc. Server revenues totaled US$2.01 billion for the quarter, as server shipments reached 390,758 units.
Despite the US downturn, healthy economic conditions in many of the emerging markets in the region like India, Indonesia and Vietnam is fuelling IT spending across various industries.
The x86 server segment turned out to be the key growth contributor (see Table 1), especially in bigger markets like Greater China and Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). Continued improvement in x86 technology coupled with growing adoption of virtualization technology is driving demand for configuration rich 2-way and 4-way processors...
