Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa server market in 2013: key vendors, facts and figures.

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According to this index, factory revenue in the EMEA server market reached $3.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013 (4Q13), a decrease of 5.2% when compared with the same quarter of 2012. Shipments reached 606,548 units, representing a minimal

0.3% annual decline.

Beyond this aspect, Connectikpeople.co is seduced by the quarter-on-quarter performance, which displayed a more positive picture with moderate double-digit growth in volumes. +13.2% and revenue showing strong growth of 28.5%.

EMEA server revenues reached $12.4 billion for the full calendar year 2013, which shows a moderate annual decline of 5.3%. Connectikpeople.co has captured the improved-market compared with the stronger annual declines of 9.6% in revenues and 5.0% in units in 2012.

x86 servers totaled revenues of $2.8 billion, equivalent to 75.8% of the total value market (a decline of 5.7 percentage points quarterly and an increase of 6.6 percentage points annually). x86 industry standard servers achieved year-on-year revenue growth of 3.7% despite a slight decline in unit terms by 0.3%.

Non-x86 sales only accounted for 6,250 units, with revenues of $888 million, which is a decline of 25.4% year-on-year, a slight increase on the drop of 22.2% experienced in the previous quarter, which also showed moderate revenue growth on the CISC side.

IDC believes that non-x86 technologies will continue to be eroded by migration to x86.

The Western European market continued to reflect the general trend toward x86 servers, which generated sales of $2.1 billion and showed moderate annual growth of 5.7%. Non-x86 server revenue totaled $710 million, a decline of 22.8%. Despite the encouraging performance on the x86 side, the overall Western European server market shrank 3.5% in 4Q13 compared with the same quarter in 2012.

According t he same index, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMA) server revenue decreased 10.3% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2013, posting $892.31 million. It was the sixth consecutive quarter of decline. Demand for both x86 and non-x86 was subdued due to economic weakness across the region with non-x86 servers declining as much as 34.1% year-on-year.

By operating system, Windows held 51.6 % of the market, generating hardware spending of around $1.9 billion, down 0.6% year-on-year. Linux achieved a significant rise year-on-year, growing by 9.3% after generating sales of $832.8 million, and capturing less than a quarter (22.7%) of the total market. In contrast, Unix revenues declined 15.4% year-on-year, reaching sales of only $462.6 million on the back of weaker RISC system sales and lack of demand from new customers. z/OS revenues dropped sharply by 40.5% year-on-year to $290.0 million due to refresh cycles.

Blades continued their growth path (+9.4% year-on-year) following 7.1% growth in 3Q that put an end to the downtrend seen in previous quarters. In terms of revenue share of the total market, towers are back in second place (22.3%), slightly ahead of blades (21.4%).

HP, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu and Oracle are the top vendors and players.