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Worldwide: Server Vendor Shipment Estimates, 3Q08 (Units)
Company 3Q08 3Q08 3Q07 3Q07 3Q08-3Q07
Shipments Market Shipments Market Growth (%)
Share (%) Share (%)
Hewlett-Packard 724,024 31.2 649,958 29.3 11.4
Dell Inc. 500,470 21.6 484,650 21.8 3.3
IBM 308,524 13.3 319,674 14.4 -3.5
Sun Microsystems 81,522 3.5 79,237 3.6 2.9
Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens 73,578 3.2 76,506 3.4 -3.8
Others 629,863 27.2 610.704 27.5 3.1
Total 2,317,981 100.0 2,220,729 100.0 4.4
Source: Gartner (December 2008)
its No.1 position, with shipments growth but could not repeat its strong vendors in this segment, only Groupe
increasing 14.0 per cent year-on-year performance seen in the first half of Bull exhibited revenue growth.
(see Table 4). Mr Rasit added: “HP was 2008.”
the only vendor to exhibit a double Sun saw the biggest revenue decline in
digit year-on-year growth In the third quarter of 2008, RISC and this segment with -20.1 per cent
demonstrating its dominance in the Itanium Unix revenues declined 11.3 growth, a bad situation considering
server market. Of the top five vendors, per cent while units declined 20.1 per that this segment constitutes Sun’s
Dell was the only vendor to show cent year-on-year. Of the top five core business.
Red Bull Technology expands F1 race car design capability
Red Bull Technology has signed IBM to Gartner, more than 70 percent of
increase its computing power and Global 1000 companies will need to
design more accurate models for dramatically change their datacentres
virtual testing before starting costly, in the next five years as they are
physical product development. IBM will running out of power and space, while
expand Red Bull’s High Performance managing skyrocketing energy and
Computing cluster and upgrade a cooling costs. In response, IBM is
datacentre to accelerate its research to helping clients develop a new
stay ahead of the competition. enterprise datacentre, which offers
Cadieux, IT Director at Red Bull dramatic improvements in IT efficiency
Red Bull Technology intends to use the Technology. and provides for rapid deployment of
new systems specifically for new IT services to support future
aerodynamic modelling. Aerodynamics “IBM’s high performance computing business growth.
is a critical factor in successfully solution provides the capability to
designing a Formula One car, as they accurately simulate, compare, evaluate The new high performance computing
must be designed to maximize the and analyse real-world aerodynamic cluster expansion is based on IBM’s
ideal amount of downward force while situations in a high availability and latest technology. The datacentre
minimizing wind resistance. “Formula scalable environment. IBM’s superior upgrade will also allow for future
One is the pinnacle of the motorsports high performance computing skills, growth, increasing its capacity for high
industry, where the ability to increase ability to rapidly install a robust and density computing. Water cooled rack
the speed at which data can be easily managed system were key doors will be installed to the compute
analysed to help further improve race factors in the decision to select IBM.” nodes making them highly energy-
car design is crucial,” said Matt According to technology analyst firm efficient.
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