The increased prevalence of #hyperscale computing environments is allowing whitebox server vendors to grab a bigger slice of the market, research from #Gartner has revealed.
The analyst's global server market figures for 2015's closing quarter find that Asian ODMs such as #Quanta and #Wistron were among the big winners, as players outside the leading brand-name vendors gained share.
Everyone in the top five besides #HPE enjoyed growth as the global server market grew 8.2 per cent in shipments and 9.2 per cent in revenues in Q4 on an annual comparison. But none of the top players could match the expansion rate of Gartner's 'Others' category, a collection of unspecified players sitting outside the leading quintet.
This includes Quanta and Wistron, two Taiwanese ODMs that have found success selling their boxes into hyperscale datacentres from the likes of #Facebook, #Google and #Microsoft.
Those outside the top five saw revenues beef up 18.9 per cent to $4.75bn (£3.35bn) and shipments swell 16 per cent to 1.26 million in Q4.
This means they have now captured 31.4 and 42.5 per cent of the market in revenue and shipment terms, respectively.
"This demonstrates that the growth of hyperscale datacentres, like those of Facebook, Google and Microsoft, continues to be the leading contributor to physical server increases globally," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner.
This backs up the views of rival market watcher Dell'Oro, which told Channelnomics Europe sister publication CRN UK last year it estimated that Asian ODMs such as Quanta and Wistron had snatched 10 per cent of server revenues and 15 per cent of server shipments.
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