Chinese enterprise networking vendor Inspur has overtaken IT major Oracle to become the fourth largest server player in the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region in 2013, said IDC.
The top three server vendors in the Asia Pacific include IBM, HP and Dell. Their combined server market share declined to 70.7 percent in 2013 from 82.4 percent in 2010, said IDC.
“Taiwanese ODMs accounted for a little more than 2 percent 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,” said 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 hyperscale datacenters, rather than make a big dent into the traditional enterprise customers segment.
Server revenues in APEJ grew 1.3 percent to $9,985 million in 2013.
The modest growth in 2013 was in sharp contrast to the heady 17 percent growth recorded in 2010 and 2011, fuelled by massive infrastructure build out by Web 2.0 and cloud service providers in the PRC.
Despite the sharp deceleration in growth in 2013 compared to the previous years, server market in APEJ continued to outperform other regional markets on a worldwide basis.
Strong adoption of server virtualization 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.
The Web 2.0 and public cloud services providers such as Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba building hyper-scale datacenters, who were responsible for driving the heady demand for servers in the PRC for the past several years, took a breather in 2013 that impacted the spending growth.
