Server shipments increase, revenue declines

Gartner has released new figures about the state of server shipments worldwide, and even though growth has been recorded, that’s not real a success story yet. According to its figures, global servers shipment increased 1.7 percent year-on-year, but revenue declined 2.3 percent. The research company says this means that servers which were being sold same time last year were more expensive than the ones being sold now. "Although revenue declined, the first quarter of 2016 continued with a trend of low-level shipments growth on a global level with a variation in results by region", says Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner.… [Continue Reading]