HP increases lead over IBM, Dell in global server market

HP increases lead over IBM, Dell in global server market   Revenue generated from the sales of servers globally reached $12.57 billion in the second quarter of 2014 according to the latest IDC worldwide quarterly server tracker, which means that the sector is on track to hit $50 billion sales for a full year.That's a 2.5% improvement year-on-year while the number of servers shipped grew by only 1.2% to 2.2 million, which indicates that the average prices of the servers shipped increased by slightly more than 2% to just over $5,720.Volume systems experienced a near-5% revenue growth, the fifth consecutive quarterly growth in that segment. Read more >