{"id":740187,"date":"2013-03-01T21:23:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T02:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=616162"},"modified":"2013-03-01T21:23:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T02:23:07","slug":"other-server-brands-show-strong-growth-thanks-to-webscale-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740187","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Other\u2019 server brands show strong growth thanks to webscale companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

No-name server makers posted\u00a0stronger year-to-year revenue growth than traditional powers such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to new Gartner data. The news, which falls in line with a trend going back to the third quarter of 2011, makes sense as webscale companies — Google, Facebook, etc. — demand inexpensive but custom-tailored servers for their data centers.<\/p>

According to Gartner<\/a>,\u00a0the “other vendors” increased revenue almost 22 percent year over year for the quarter, beating out Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and Oracle. HP, a perennial leader in servers, saw its worldwide server revenue decline 3.3 percent during the same period, while Oracle’s dropped 18 percent. <\/p>

“Application-as-a-business data centers such as Baidu, Facebook and Google were the real drivers of significant volume growth for the year,”\u00a0Gartner Research Vice President Jeffrey Hewitt said in a statement.<\/p>

HP and Dell lost some business from cloud and hosting provider Rackspace, which turned to Quanta and Wistron<\/a> for custom servers based on Open Compute Project designs. Quanta also\u00a0captured business<\/a> from Amazon and Facebook.<\/p>

The Chinese search giant Baidu, which might be planning the world’s largest data center, with 100,000 servers<\/a>, is reportedly<\/a> giving its server business to Marvell Technologies.<\/p>

If the trend continues, and smaller server makers such as Quanta keep gaining ground, Gartner might want to start breaking out the “other vendors” in its reports.<\/p>
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