Bangkok--3 Apr--IBM
IBM in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Philippines ranked #1 in overall server revenue share, for Q4 2011
IBM today in Thailand announced a sustained leadership momentum within the Server market in ASEAN, grabbing revenue market share leadership from incumbent, HP, according to leading IT market research and advisory firm, IDC.
As reported in IDC’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly Server Tracker 4Q 2011, IBM wrested control of the leading position in the overall ASEAN server market in terms of market revenue, with a 40% market share, a strong 9 points higher than second-placed HP. IBM’s sustained achievement was a result of the deep market acceptance and preference for the IBM Power Systems? and System z servers.
In Thailand, IBM reclaimed the number one server vendor position, in terms of overall server revenue market share with a 52.1 percent share, gaining a forceful 29.6 points of share higher than the next closest competitor for Q4 2011.
IBM also reclaimed the number one position in terms of market share in Thailand in Q4 2011 for the segments of :
- High-end Enterprise ($250k+ servers) segment with 79.8% revenue share (a substantial 59.6 points higher than the next closest competitor)
- RISC/EPIC servers segment with 49.6% revenue share (a hardy 18.1 points higher than the next closest competitor)
- Nonx86 Unix server revenue share at 64% (a convinving 39.7 points higher than the next closest competitor)
- Linux server revenue share at 36.2 percent (a steady 7.9 points higher than the next closest competitor)
Our continued momentum is being powered by our investments in differentiated systems and leadership technology. As the Thailand economy continues to grow, clients are looking increasingly to IBM to help modernize their IT infrastructures, realize cost savings and innovate for growth. IBM is committed to always finding ways to deliver value to our clients, as at the end of the day, it's about the customer, about delivering highly scalable, cost-effective, energy-efficient solutions that help clients differentiate themselves in their chosen markets." said Tanapong Ittisakulchai Country Manager, System & Technology Group, IBM Thailand.
Said Phong Taylor, Vice President, Systems & Technology Group, IBM ASEAN, "We are proud to again confirm our leadership position, which validates the value of our smarter computing initiative, by leveraging IBM's strengths in the key areas of big data and analytics integration, optimized systems and cloud computing. This recognition of IBM’s leadership in the ASEAN Server space substantiates our ongoing strategy of helping transforming businesses deploy the most advanced technologies to attain efficiency, innovation and future growth.” She continued, “We are confident that our upcoming sequel to IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative, where a new era of computing, consisting of a series of systems that will have “integrated expertise” built in will further cement our leadership. These new systems will combine IBM’s semiconductor, research and services advances in an integrated system, that will not only reduce the total cost of IT by making it possible for fewer administrators than ever to manage a greater number of physical and virtual servers, but also make it possible for IT organizations to “right-size” their IT investments by utilizing shared cloud resources to process peak application workloads."
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Source: IDC’s Worldwide and Asia/Pacific Quarterly Server and Disk Storage Systems Tracker, Q4, 2011 (released in March 2012)