Hewlett Packard might be maintaining a low media profile under the guidance of CEo Mark Hurd, but it has not stopped the company from racking up some good numbers.
According to HP, the latest IDC data will show it’s managed to maintain its market leadership in a number of server segments.The company says the IDC data indicates it is number one in Windows, UNIX, Linux, Itanium & x86 Servers. Add that to some storage industry segments and you see a big company that continues to steal marketshare.
According to IDC’s AP Quarterly Enterprise Server Tracker, in calendar year 2005 HP server revenues grew more than 5 times the market growth rate – growing 12% year-on-year (YoY) compared to market growth of 2.1% YoY.
In fact the company is responsible for selling nearly one quarter of all servers in the Asia Pacific region and has now led the x86 server market for the past 15 consecutive quarters since Q2 2002, well back into Carly Fiorini’s term.
The list of first goes on; during calendar year 2005 HP was the number one vendor in the Unix server market with 33.16 per cent (growing 2.6 times the market); number one in the Windows server market with 27.86 per cent (growing 1.6 times the market); number one in Itanium servers with a 60 plus share may not surprise, but a healthy 24.36 per cent and growing 1.4 times faster in the Linux server market rounds out a good set of numbers.
It also had wins in the storage market also with the factory revenue lead in total disk storage and external disk storage.
“2005 was a year of solid execution by HP’s server and storage business in Asia Pacific and