Garners a whopping 50.9% market share in Q2 2009
India, September 11, 2009: IBM was the leader in India’s x86 Blade Server Market in revenue terms in Q2 2009, according to IDC. With a whopping 22.6 points revenue share increase YTY, IBM led the x86 Blade server market segment in Q2 2009 with a 50.9% share according to IDC’s Asia/Pacific Enterprise Server Tracker, Q2 2009, September 2009 release. The overall x86 Blade server segment contracted 18% YTY in revenues in India in Q2 2009.
According to company sources, IBM was one of the first companies to roll out a revamped x86 server line-up around Intel’s latest processor, Xeon 5500 chips or Gainestown (Codenamed Nehalem). This is IBM’s most comprehensive upgrade to its family of x86 products. IBM’s latest x86 systems can handle 3.5-times more bandwidth and 2.25-times better performance for enterprise computing, in addition to significant reduction in power costs (up to a 60 percent reduction in power when these systems are idle and up to 25 percent reduction when fully utilized. IBM estimates a yearly cost savings of up to $100 per server versus earlier models). In this quarter, IBM had some significant wins including Religare and CBay.
“We feel that the strong customer validation demonstrated in these reports only reinforce what customers demand most in the current economic environment - best of class technology from a trusted long term technology partner. IBM is making impact with our approach of providing clients innovative infrastructure & technology solutions that help them overcome the business challenges they are facing. IBM Systems and Storage offers industry-leading performance, cost optimization and energy efficiency through the integrated framework of dynamic infrastructure. We also continue to strengthen our ecosystem with Business partners and ISV so as to increase our reach, as well as choice of business solutions for our clients in Enterprise and SMB marketplace.’ said Mukul Mathur, Director – Systems and Technology Group, IBM India/SA.