Worldwide and U.S. Server 2007 Vendor Shares

This IDC study provides our server market share data based on the server taxonomy that was first introduced in the first half of 2003 and was updated again last year. Specifically, this study presents the latest worldwide and U.S. views based on actual annual data through year-end 2007. Worldwide server factory revenue market growth during the year was 3.6%, rising from $52.5 billion in 2006 to $54.4 billion in 2007.

"This is a high-water mark since the previous peak year in 2000, when annual revenue was $61.6 billion," said Steve Josselyn, research director of IDC's Enterprise Platforms group. "This growth was driven by a variety of factors, including strong growth in the x86 server segment, which includes the fast-growing blade server segment. Other factors include IT buildout in datacenters that are refreshing or transforming their IT infrastructure and projects that combine virtualization and consolidation to make their IT infrastructure more efficient through reduced requirements for power/cooling and improved management."