Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced that in Q2 2009 customers selected HP as the market leading server brand in India . The IDC India Quarterly Server Tracker has confirmed HP securing 35.9% of the India server market share in terms of revenue. HP was also the clear leader in terms of units shipped with 32.8% market share (Apr-June 2009 quarter).
“In today’s environments customers are more than ever looking for the best possible returns on their server investments. HP ProLiant and Integrity Platforms continue to deliver the right combination of performance and scalability along with advances in energy efficiency, virtualization and automation, making it ideal for customers.”, said Durgadutt Nedungadi, Director, Enterprise Servers and Storage, HP India. “HP’s continued leadership in Q2’09 and 1H’09 is a testimony to our efforts in helping build superior IT infrastructure that drives business growth for our customers in challenging times.”
HP is #1 platform for non-x86 & Unix Server market in Q2’09
HP led the non-x86 server market garnering 39.5% market share of the total factory revenue for Q2’09. In the non-x86 UNIX server market HP was the market leader. While the market grew at only 0.8%, HP saw growth at 20.4% Quarter-on-Quarter from Q109. In high end enterprise servers, HP continued its dominance with 55.1% market share (total factory revenue) making HP as the no1 server platform for Mission Critical Computing environments.
HP is #1 platform in the x86 server market for Q2’09
In the x86 market, HP extended its leadership into the eleventh consecutive quarter. In terms of unit shipments for the x86 categories for Q2 2009, HP led the market with 33.45% market share in unit shipments. HP also led the x86 category in terms of factory revenues with 32.56% market share. One out of every two blade server sold in India during Q1 2009 was a HP ProLiant Blade server with HP holding a share at 50.06% in terms of units shipped.
In the India 4-socket server category, HP secured 65.84% market share in terms of units shipped in Q1 2009. HP shipped more than double the number of servers of the nearest four market players. HP also led in terms of factory revenues with 59% market share. HPs dominance continued in the 2-socket server category with 36.45% market share.
