AND FINALLY
EMEA RESISTS A TOUGH ENVIRONMENT
The EMEA server market has resisted the • Windows took a strong turn and Iain Stephen also believed the effect
tough economic environment that has claimed a revenue share of 37.4% of the of the weak dollar and Euro exchange
blighted Q1, according to figures from EMEA market, signaling an earlier-than- rate would not have been that influential.
the IDC’s Quarterly Server Tracker expected uptake of Windows Server 2008. “As the US Dollar declined in late 07
Server shipments in EMEA rose 8.7% • Linux growth was slightly lower and early 08, it had more impact than it
to 680,000 in 1Q08, indicating weaker than usual, with sales reaching around does now. You also have to factor in the
average prices. As usual, Central and $600 million. relative weakness of the British pound
Eastern Europe were the fastest-growing • Sales of x86 servers with 64 bits grew against the Euro and in a large number
regions, with revenue up 11.7% and 13.5% annually. Both RISC and CISC of developing countries business is
16.4% respectively. However, Western slightly decreased, confirming the slowing conducted in US dollars. So, again, there
Europe also performed well, growing market trend of non-x86 CPU types. was a bigger impact last year.”
revenue 2.8% over the same period • Sales of blades are now showing what The study also reveals that sales
of the previous year. According to is, by all standards, a staggering annual of blades had an annual growth of
IDC’s Quarterly Server Tracker, the growth of 53.1% in revenue, while non- 53.1% in revenue. Stephen thinks that
EMEA server market resisted the tough rack servers retained their market share new technology and the convenience
economic environment in 1Q08, boosted of 47.6% thanks to the SMBs. benefits have been the major reasons
by a weak dollar/euro rate. Iain Stephen, VP Industry Standard why: “Blades will be a continually
Vendors with a strong x86 performed Servers EMEA at HP, believes that the developing space, initially as a direct
best, and EMEA factory revenue reached study’s revelations are not as startling replacement for rack mount servers,
$4.4bn, up 4.8% over Q1’07. According to as might first appear. “You also offering cable reduction, management
Nathaniel Martinez, director of European have to consider that in many EMEA overhead reduction and power
Enterprise servers at IDC, “The strong results countries over 50% of the market is consolidation. In the end, they save
indicate that virtualization is acting as a in the SMB space,” Stephen told IT money on cabling, power and space.
driving force in the market, as end users Europa. “Spending is always tight in Customers like saving money.”
discover its possibilities in management SMBs, as they expect high value for Other findings revealed in the study
and automation. It is being used to tackle money. But, these customers are also included that non-rack servers retained
server sprawl and has particular relevance still buying their first email servers, their market share of 47.6%. Volume
in the fields of high availability and disaster web servers etc. So, again the diverse servers were the main market force,
recovery for SMBs, a segment that server nature of the EMEA markets helps driven by cheaper boxes that took 52.8%
vendors are fiercely aiming at.” smooth the situation.” of revenue.
COMPANIES IN PAGE HP 25,61 Regent Associates 1,12
THIS ISSUE NUMBER Huddle.net 56 Ruckus 51
IBM 7,25,40,49 S&T 6
Altkom Akademia 46 IBS 54 Salescentric 47
AMD 22 iHub 8 SAP 46,61
Appear Networks 54 Ingram Micro 4,54 Sevana OY 58
Aruba Networks 50 Intel 22,25 SGI 25,58
Avnet 26,63 Itway 8 Siveco 54
Brocade 57 jMind Consulting 54 SMC Networks 49
Bullguard 62 Lenovo 58 Sorainen 14
C2C 63 Meru Networks 51 Sun Microsystems 25
Capgemini 61 Microsoft 10,46,47 Talk & Vision 63
Check Point 8 Netsuite 41 Tata Consultancy 5
Cisco 6,25,56 Network Appliance 25 Trivantis 63
Citrix 24,25,26 Nimsoft 57 T-Systems 61
Colubris Networks 49,56 Nokia 8 Unisy 25
Definiens 61 Nortel 8,49,56 Vcomm 50
Dell 25 Northdoor 54 Vdel 46
Dexterra 7 Novell 25 VERITAS 25
Digitex 63 Orange 51 VMware 24
Equisys 46 Pixelpark 61 Websense 8
Essi Projects 46 Plimsoll 13 Westcon 8,51
Extricom 50 Progress Software 41 ZyXEL 49
Forrester 60 PWC 13
Horizon 25 Red Hat 25,46
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