{"id":644875,"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.media\/index\/644875","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Other\u2019 server brands show strong growth thanks to webscale companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; Google, Facebook, etc. &#8212; demand inexpensive but custom-tailored servers for their data centers.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/2351518\">Gartner<\/a>,\u00a0the &#8220;other vendors&#8221; 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&#8217;s dropped 18 percent. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Application-as-a-business data centers such as Baidu, Facebook and Google were the real drivers of significant volume growth for the year,&#8221;\u00a0Gartner Research Vice President Jeffrey Hewitt said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>HP and Dell lost some business from cloud and hosting provider Rackspace, which <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/01\/16\/rackspace-will-build-its-own-servers-just-like-facebook-and-google-do\/\">turned to Quanta and Wistron<\/a> for custom servers based on Open Compute Project designs. Quanta also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/05\/02\/open-compute-one-year-later-bigger-badder-and-less-disruptive-than-we-thought\/\">captured business<\/a> from Amazon and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese search giant Baidu, which might be planning the world&#8217;s largest data center, <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/01\/09\/a-peek-inside-chinas-internet-giants-and-their-massive-scale\/\">with 100,000 servers<\/a>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.fool.com\/tigeranalyst\/2013\/02\/25\/baidu-helping-disrupt-server-market\/25408\/?logvisit=y&#38;published=2013-02-25&#038;%2338;source=eptcnnlnk0000001\">reportedly<\/a> giving its server business to Marvell Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>If the trend continues, and smaller server makers such as Quanta keep gaining ground, Gartner might want to start breaking out the &#8220;other vendors&#8221; in its reports.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=14960843&#038;%23038;post=616162&#038;%23038;subd=gigaom2&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&#038;%23038;c=985040\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&#038;%23038;c=985040\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:<\/strong><br \/>Subscriber content. <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=616162+other-server-brands-show-strong-growth-thanks-to-webscale-companies&#038;utm_content=gigajordan\">Sign up for a free trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2012\/12\/how-the-mobile-first-world-will-transform-the-data-center\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=616162+other-server-brands-show-strong-growth-thanks-to-webscale-companies&#038;utm_content=gigajordan\">How tomorrow&#8217;s mobile-centric data centers will look<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2012\/12\/why-converged-infrastructure-is-crucial-to-the-data-center\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=616162+other-server-brands-show-strong-growth-thanks-to-webscale-companies&#038;utm_content=gigajordan\">The role of converged infrastructure in the data center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2012\/03\/a-near-term-outlook-for-big-data\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=616162+other-server-brands-show-strong-growth-thanks-to-webscale-companies&#038;utm_content=gigajordan\">A near-term outlook for big data<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img width='1' height='1' src='http:\/\/gigaom.feedsportal.com\/c\/34996\/f\/646446\/s\/291dee86\/mf.gif' border='0'\/><\/p>\n<div class='mf-viral'>\n<table border='0'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='middle'><a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/viral\/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&#038;title=%E2%80%98Other%E2%80%99+server+brands+show+strong+growth+thanks+to+webscale+companies&#038;link=http%3A%2F%2Fgigaom.com%2F2013%2F03%2F01%2Fother-server-brands-show-strong-growth-thanks-to-webscale-companies%2F\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res3.feedsportal.com\/images\/emailthis2.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign='middle'><a href=\"http:\/\/res.feedsportal.com\/viral\/bookmark.cfm?title=%E2%80%98Other%E2%80%99+server+brands+show+strong+growth+thanks+to+webscale+companies&#038;link=http%3A%2F%2Fgigaom.com%2F2013%2F03%2F01%2Fother-server-brands-show-strong-growth-thanks-to-webscale-companies%2F\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res3.feedsportal.com\/images\/bookmark.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/159489826293\/u\/49\/f\/646446\/c\/34996\/s\/291dee86\/a2.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/159489826293\/u\/49\/f\/646446\/c\/34996\/s\/291dee86\/a2.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi.feedsportal.com\/r\/159489826293\/u\/49\/f\/646446\/c\/34996\/s\/291dee86\/a2t.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=lgn1OCgVJN4:_f1zTuxj_G8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/lgn1OCgVJN4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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