Gartner’s data show that in the fourth quarter, the server vendor in the global market of 238 million units sold services, an increase of 6.5%. Revenues of 14.68 billion U.S. dollars related to an increase of 16.4%. The year 2010, the server vendors sold a total of 884 million servers, an increase of 16.8%. However, the related revenue of 48.8 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of only 13.2%. This was mainly due to three quarters by 2010, mainframe sales decline, and the RISC / Itanium Unix system sales continued to decline.

Gartner research vice president Jeffrey Hewitt (Jeffrey Hewitt) said: “In 2010, the global market for x86 server-based demand to increase. Intel and AMD in late 2009 launched a new processor, which push the server update cycle. The update cycle in 2009 when the inhibition of the economic downturn. “

Testinside data while the server is the fastest growing region in spending in North America, representing a growth rate of 24.5%. Asia-Pacific region, followed by a growth rate of 22.4%. Growth rate of Latin America 12.3% Europe, Middle East and Africa grew by 10.4%. It is noteworthy that, in 2010, the Japanese market server spending fell 4.4%.

Gartner’s data also showed that the fourth quarter of 2010, IBM Development certification, an increase of 3.8%. But the higher price makes IBM mainframe related revenue reached 5.21 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 26.4%. The industry believes that mainframe sales so popular is not sustainable. HP’s server shipments still ranked first, for 767,026 units, up 6.9%. Because HP sells servers based on x86 cheap, so revenue is only $ 4,460,000,000, an increase of 12.8%.

   IBM 000-609 share grew by 3%, and this growth trend is expected to continue into the first quarter of this year, or even the second quarter. But the industry is expected, with decreasing demand for mainframe, IBM will be the product price, which will lead to a decline in average revenue per server.