HPE, Dell, IBM, Lenovo and Cisco are the top server companies based on their Q4 2017 revenue from server business, IDC report said.
Technology vendors’ revenue in server market rose 26.4 percent to $20.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Server shipments grew 10.8 percent to 2.84 million units. Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Huawei, Super Micro and Inspur are the top five server suppliers based on the shipments in the fourth quarter.
The server market continues gained momentum, as traction for newer Purley- and EPYC-based offerings grows. While demand from cloud service providers has propped up overall market performance, other areas of the server market continue to show growth now as well, IDC said.
Volume server revenue increased 21.9 percent to $15.8 billion.
Midrange server revenue grew 48.5 percent to $1.9 billion.
High-end systems grew 41.1 percent to $2.9 billion.
Demand for x86 servers increased 24.7 percent in 4Q17 with $17.5 billion in revenues. Non-x86 servers grew 36.4 percent year over year to $3.2 billion.
Canada was the fastest growing region with 69.7 percent growth.
The United States grew 29.6 percent, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) grew 17.4 percent, and Latin America declined 5 percent.
Asia Pacific excluding Japan and China grew 38.2 percent, China grew 33.8 percent, and Japan grew 4.3 percent.
