Gartner: Fatter Servers Drive Revenues in Q1
June 13, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
In last week’s issue of The Four Hundred, I went over what the box counters at IDC reckoned happened in the server market in the first quarter. IDC looks at the market at the vendor factory level and gives a certain dicing and slicing. The box counters over at Gartner look at sales by vendor type including the reseller channel and direct sales from the vendors with a slightly different angle. By Gartner’s count, customers shelled out $12.67 billion for servers in the first quarter, an increase of 17.3 percent compared to the year-ago period. The number of boxes |