According to new report by Global Industry Analysts (GIA), the high-end enterprise server market is set to reach $12.5 billion by 2012. North America will continue to remain top consumers, while the Asia-Pacific region is expected to show the fastest growth, said analysts.
All technology segments, geographies and vendors felt the impact of the weakening market conditions and deepening global recession, especially during the last quarter of 2008 and high-end enterprise servers market was no exception.
Revenues from Windows servers are projected to account for a major share of the global server market for the year 2015. Besides Windows, Unix, and Linux, which are the top operating system servers, NetWare, OpenVMS, OS/390, AS400, OS/400, z/OS and i5/OS have also made a mark in the global servers market.
IBM, HP, Dell, Sun, and Fujitsu, in that order, feature as the leading vendors in the global server marketplace. Each one of the leading server vendors however, witnessed a fall in their annual revenues as well as year-on-year falls in quarterly revenues, due to the current economic slowdown.
