Beats IBM by a nose.

It looks like the growth of HP goes ever upward. Latest figures show that they have pipped IBM to the post in server sales.

HP has pipped IBM to claim the top spot in the server market, according to the latest research. A Gartner report shows that HP have 29.6% of the market for Q1 2008, a 10% increase over the same period last year. Meanwhile, IBM lost 0.6% down to 28.9%. Other vendors trailed in:

• Dell -12.1%
• Sun Microsystems - 9.7%
• Fujitsu/Siemens - 5.4%

In all, server revenues reached about $13.6 billion - who said hardware sales were dead?Much of HP’s success has been accredited to the ProLiant and Integrity brands, as well as a 13 per cent increase in revenue from blade servers. Energy and cost efficiency of these products has seen significant leaps in recent years and HP claims that customers are turning to its machines for lower power consumption and better value.

Saving the planet and making a fat profit, nice.

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