According to the International Data Corporation (IDC ) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker , vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 5.1% year over year to $13.4 billion in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), the sixth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth. During this quarter, revenue grew in rack optimized, blade, and density-optimized servers, while towers declined. Worldwide server shipments totaled 2.49 million units in 3Q15, an increase of 4.5% when compared with the third quarter of 2014.
On a year-over-year basis, volume system revenue increased by 7.0% and high-end system demand increased by 1.2% in 3Q15 to $10.8 billion and $1.4 billion, respectively. The volume segment was aided by a continued expansion of x86-based hyper-scale datacenters coupled with enterprise and SMB refresh of x86-based platforms, while high-end systems were helped by IBM's z13 refresh, which began in 1Q15 and has since been decelerating. Meanwhile, 3Q15 demand for midrange systems contracted by -5.8% year over year to $1.2 billion, as the x86 refresh appears to have run its course in this segment.
"As the server market nears the end of 2015 with continued growth, fears of depleted IT budgets from an early run on servers have failed to materialize," said Kuba Stolarski , Research Director, Servers and Emerging Technologies at IDC. "At the same time, that perfect storm in the first quarter could not have been expected to continue through the end of the year, as the effects of the cyclical enterprise refresh, Windows Server 2003 end of support, and Grantley platform refreshes all come to an end. Looking forward, IDC sees modest opportunities for short term market growth related to the upcoming Microsoft SQL Server 2005 end of support on April 16, 2016; we estimate approximately 800,000 servers globally still running SQL Server 2005. In the longer term, IDC expects server market growth to be driven by software-defined, disaggregated systems and network edge-deployed Internet of Things (IoT) compute."
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