Mumbai: Asia-Pacific region has posted a 3.3 percent rise in server revenue and 18 percent increase in server shipments in the first quarter of 2014, according to IT research and advisory company Gartner.
In Japan, shipments increased by 13.5 percent, but revenue declined by 9.2 percent while in Western Europe shipments declined by 4.8 percent and revenues rose 6.7 percent, Gartner said in a report.
Worldwide server shipments grew 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 2014, while server revenue declined 4.1 percent year-over-year.
"The first quarter of 2014 produced relatively weak growth on a global level with a variation in results by region," said vice president, Research, Gartner, Jeffrey Hewitt.
"x86 servers managed to produce an increase with growth of 1.7 percent in units for the year and 2.8 percent in revenue," Hewitt said.
"RISC/Itanium Unix servers fell globally in the first quarter of 2014-down 19.9 percent in shipments and a 16.9 percent decline in vendor revenue compared with the same quarter last year. The 'other' CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed a decline of 37.6 percent year-over-year in terms of revenue, he added.
HP led the worldwide server market in revenue terms in the first quarter of 2014. The company ended the quarter with USD 2.9 billion in revenue, for a total share of 25.5 percent worldwide. This was down 2.3 percent compared with the same quarter in 2013, the survey said.
Cisco was the only company among top five that increased revenue in the first quarter of 2014, with growth of 37 percent compared with the same quarter in 2013.
In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the first quarter of 2014 even though its shipments declined 7.9 percent compared with the first quarter of 2013.
