HP continued to lead in India x86 server market, with 38 percent market share in terms of units, followed by Dell with a share of 19 percent, said the latest APeJ Server Tracker by IDC.
Lenovo increased its share marginally due to large multi-million dollars deal in central Government vertical.
The x86 server market in India grew by 7.5 percent in terms of units and witnessed a double-digit year-on-year growth in Q1 2015, the report said.
The quarter also found increased uptake of higher priced density and rack optimized servers that led to an increase in the ASP of the servers in Q1 2015 and in turn resulted in a higher growth percentage in terms of revenue rather than units.
Professional Services, Communications and Media, Banking and Manufacturing verticals continued to be the major contributors in Q1 2015.
The non x86 server market marginally grew by 7 percent year on year in terms of revenue. Both PSU and Private banks contributed to this growth by investing in technology refresh deals. Refresh and upgrade deals are expected from all verticals especially from the telecom organizations in CY 2015.
White box players are gaining traction among e-commerce and cloud providers and starting to figure in the consideration set of some of the traditional customers as well. The primary reason for this is cost and increased control over their infrastructure. Traditional vendors need to revisit their mitigation plans to nullify the impact from white-box players.
According to IDC report, hybrid cloud is fast becoming the need of the hour and this in turn is increasing the penetration of Software defined solutions.
Software defined solutions are expected to help organizations access applications from different cloud providers seamlessly and simplify management while migrating some of the on-premise applications to various cloud platforms.
Government initiatives like Digital India and e-governance are among the key growth drivers of the market, said Gaurav Sharma, research manager, Enterprise Computing, IDC India.
“There is a visible shift in purchase pattern for Indian organizations where strategic initiatives and involvement from LoBs (in purchase decisions) are increasingly becoming the deciding factors against the earlier transactional approach,” Sharma added.
Huge demand for compute from e-tailing and cloud providers supported by the traditional spending is expected to take the market to a new high in 2015.
Technology refresh and upgradation deals from Banking and Telecom verticals are expected in the next few quarters. In addition to this, recent government initiatives are also expected to add to the demand in CY 2015, the report predicted.
Rajani Baburajan