NEEDHAM, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — September 9, 2021 — According to the International Data Corporation ( IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, worldwide server market revenue declined 2.5% year over year to $23.6 billion during the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21). Worldwide server shipments surpassed 3.2 million during the quarter, an increase of just 0.1% over the previous year.
Volume server revenue was up 5.6% to nearly $20.0 billion. Midrange server revenue declined 30.0% to $2.4 billion, and high-end servers declined by 32.7% to $1.3 billion.
"Broadly speaking, server market performance was muted in the second quarter as the market shifted slightly towards single socket server configurations," said Paul Maguranis, senior research analyst, Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies at IDC. "While servers purchased directly from ODMs declined year over year, some past backlog recovery within the hyperscale datacenter community contributed to a large jump in this segment when compared to the first quarter of this year."
Overall Server Market Standings, by Company
HPE/H3Ca ended the quarter in a statistical tie* with Dell Technologies for the top position in the worldwide server market. The revenue shares for the two companies were 15.7% and 15.6% respectively. Inspur/Inspur Power Systemsb ranked third with 9.4% revenue share. Lenovo was in fourth place while IBM came in at fifth, with 7.0% share and 5.0% share respectively. The ODM Direct group of vendors accounted for 26.7% of total server revenue and declined 8.8% year over year to $6.3 billion while accounting for 32.2% of all units shipped during the quarter.
Top 5 Companies, Worldwide Server Vendor Revenue, Market Share, and Growth, Second Quarter of 2021 (Revenues are in US$ Millions) |
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Company |
2Q21 Revenue |
2Q21 Market Share |
2Q20 Revenue |
2Q20 Market Share |
2Q21/2Q20 Revenue Growth |
T1. HPE/H3Ca* |
$3,704.6 |
15.7% |
$3,582.4 |
14.8% |
3.4% |
T1. Dell Technologies* |
$3,680.3 |
15.6% |
$3,339.8 |
13.8% |
10.2% |
3. Inspur/Inspur Power Systemsb |
$2,212.7 |
9.4% |
$2,532.9 |
10.5% |
-12.6% |
4. Lenovo |
$1,651.5 |
7.0% |
$1,466.6 |
6.1% |
12.6% |
5. IBM |
$1,170.8 |
5.0% |
$1,453.5 |
6.0% |
-19.5% |
ODM Direct |
$6,307.4 |
26.7% |
$6,917.6 |
28.5% |
-8.8% |
Rest of Market |
$4,912.1 |
20.8% |
$4,942.3 |
20.4% |
-0.6% |
Total |
$23,639.4 |
100.0% |
$24,235.1 |
100.0% |
-2.5% |
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, September 9, 2021 |
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Notes:
* IDC declares a statistical tie in the worldwide server market when there is a difference of one percent or less in the share of revenues or shipments among two or more vendors.
(a) Due to the existing joint venture between HPE and H3C, IDC is reporting external market share on a global level for HPE and H3C as "HPE/H3C" starting from 2Q 2016. Per the JV agreement, Tsinghua Holdings subsidiary, Unisplendour Corporation, through a wholly owned affiliate, purchased a 51% stake in H3C and HPE has a 49% ownership stake in the new company.
