Security News > 2021 > June > Worldwide server market reaching $20.9 billion during 1Q21

The worldwide server market grew 12% year over year to $20.9 billion during the first quarter of 2021, according to IDC. Worldwide server shipments grew 8.3% year over year to nearly 2.8 million units in 1Q21. Sales of volume servers were up 15.4% to $17.3 billion during the quarter, while midrange server sales declined 2.7% to $2.4 billion.

"The first quarter 2021 server market performance benefited from a comparison against the most difficult quarter of last year's pandemic stricken year, but this fact doesn't tell a complete story," said Paul Maguranis, senior research analyst, Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies at IDC. "The considerable increase of server investments during the quarter were also buoyed by global economic tailwinds along with increased investments targeting the modernization of business applications, datacenter infrastructure, and IT operations."

Dell Technologies held the top worldwide server market ranking in 1Q21, accounting for 17.0% of total revenue.

The ODM Direct group of vendors accounted for 26.3% of total server revenue during the quarter.

Revenue generated from x86 servers increased 10.9% in 1Q21 to $18.7 billion.

Non-x86 server revenue grew 23% year over year to $2.2 billion.

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