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Byline: Martin Lynch.
PC servers continued their relentless drive into the corporate sector in 2004, according to the latest fourth-quarter and year-end figures from IDC.
The analyst found that the business shift towards x86 servers resulted in shipments growing by 15.3 per cent year on year and a factory revenue hike of 17.8 per cent. The growth in blades and rack-optimised servers showed that modular server environments are becoming the favoured customer choice, IDC claimed. The server blade market saw shipments rocket by 86.2 per cent over the year and factory revenues increase by 80 per cent.
Daniel Fleischer, senior analyst at IDC European Enterprise Servers, said: "While x86 pedestal/tower servers virtually stagnated, blade server shipment growth of 79.3 per cent and rack-optimised server growth of 27.8 per cent highlight this transition in IT environments, as well as in the implementation of large IT projects."
Overall, factory revenue in the EMEA server market grew by three per cent in Q4 compared with Q3, while system shipments rose by 15.3 per cent ...