The modest growth in 2013 was in sharp contrast to the 17% growth recorded in 2010 and 2011, fuelled by massive infrastructure buildout by Web 2.0 and cloud service providers in China. Despite the deceleration in growth, the server market in APEJ actually outperformed other regions worldwide.
"Strong adoption of server virtualisation and cloud technologies in the enterprise segment, rapidly increasing appeal of public cloud providers for specific workloads, and growing interest in integrated systems were some of the key technology disruptions that impacted the server spending growth in 2013," says Rajnish Arora, Associate Vice President of IDC's Asia/Pacific Enterprise Computing Research.
"Global economic malaise, lack of aggressive economic reforms in emerging economies, and political turmoil coupled with upcoming federal elections in certain countries were some of the non-technology factors that stymied server spending growth in 2013."
China, which has become the bellwether of the APEJ server market since 2008, barely grew in 2013. The Web 2.0 and public cloud services providers such as Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba, which built the hyper-scale data centres that had driven demand for servers for the past several years, took a breather in 2013 that impacted the spending growth.
"Server spending plunged more than 21% in Australia and New Zealand in 2013 because customers are aggressively adopting cloud and cloud technologies to help build a much more agile and flexible IT infrastructure that is much more responsive, adaptive and predictive to the dynamic needs of the business," added Arora.
The combined revenue share of the top
three vendors – HP, IBM and Dell in APEJ has steadily declined from an all time
high of 82.4% in 2010 to 70.7% in 2013.
The biggest gains have been made by the Chinese vendors – Inspur and
Huawei, on the back of growth in their home market. Inspur surged past Oracle to take the number
4 spot in revenue market share rankings in 2013, while Huawei's growth underpinned its entry into the list of top 5 vendor rankings in
APEJ.
"Taiwanese ODMs (Original Direct
Manufacturers) accounted for a little more than 2% share of the total server
market in revenue terms in 2013, despite the significant hype around the
emergence and growing impact of these suppliers on the traditional server
vendors.
IDC's research shows that the ODMs are primarily catering to the unique demand and needs of the cloud service providers building hyper-scale data centres, rather than making a big dent into the traditional enterprise customer segment," says Amit Dalal, Research Manager of IDC's Asia/Pacific Enterprise Server Research.
IDC's research shows that the ODMs are primarily catering to the unique demand and needs of the cloud service providers building hyper-scale data centres, rather than making a big dent into the traditional enterprise customer segment," says Amit Dalal, Research Manager of IDC's Asia/Pacific Enterprise Server Research.
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