Major players in the computer server market are IBM, Dell Technologies Inc., Hewlett-Packard Corp., Inspur Technologies Co. Ltd., Lenovo, FUJITSU, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Oracle Inc., Cisco, EMC Corp., PolarLake, Adobe Systems Inc., VMware Inc., Bull Ltd., RedHat Inc., Apache Corp., Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp., Western Digital Corporation, Kingston Technology Company Inc., Seagate Technology and Toshiba.
The global computer servers market is expected to grow from $87.06 billion in 2021 to $93.20 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.1%. The growth is mainly due to the companies rearranging their operations and recovering from the COVID-19 impact, which had earlier led to restrictive containment measures involving social distancing, remote working and the closure of commercial activities that resulted in operational challenges. The market is expected to reach $117.08 billion in 2026 at a CAGR of 5.9%.
The computer servers market consists of sales of computer servers by entities (organizations, sole traders and partnerships) that provide computer servers, which are hardware devices used to store, access, secure and manage digital data, files and services. Only goods and services traded between entities or sold to end consumers are included.
The main types of computer servers are web server, virtual server, application server, database server and others.A web server is a combination of software and hardware that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and some other protocols to respond to the requests made over the World Wide Web (www).
It uses server operating system such as microsoft windows servers, LINUX / UNIX servers, netware and cloud servers and are used in mainframes, desktop, laptop computer and other applications.
The regions covered in the computer server market are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa.
The increasing demand for the server is a key factor driving the growth of the computer server market.A server is a computer that supplies other computers with data, it can serve content over the internet to devices on a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN).
The global server industry is experiencing double-digit growth and shows no indications of slowing down. According to Gartner, the worldwide server market revenue increased by 5.1% and shipments grew by 11.7% in the fourth quarter of 2019. Therefore, the increasing demand for the server is expected to propel the growth of the computer servers market over the forecast period.
The impact of COVID-19 is expected to impede the growth of the computer server market over the coming years.The effect of COVID-19 will dampen overall IT infrastructure (server and enterprise storage systems) investment as businesses temporarily halted and workers are laid off or furloughed.
For instance, total server sales declined to 22.1% in India to $232.1 million in the January-March quarter in 2020, attributing to the impact of COVID-19. Therefore, the impact of COVID-19 restraints the growth of the computer server market.
The technological advancements are a major trend shaping the computer server market.Major companies operating in the computer server sector are focusing on developing technology advanced solutions for a computer server.
For instance, in March 2020, Oxide Computer, a USA-based computer hardware company introduced a new type of server in which hardware and software were built together. This strategy is used by ""hyperscalers"" (AWS, Microsoft, Google and Facebook) to control companies who want or need to operate their server fleets with the most sophisticated data centers on the planet
In February 2020, Quantum Corporation, a USA-based company that stores and manages video and video-like data acquired Western Digital Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation, for an undisclosed amount. Through this acquisition, Quantum Corporation acquires Western Digital Technologies ActiveScale object storage business. ActiveScale product line brings object storage software and erasure coding to the company’s existing portfolio and expanded the Quantum Corporation’s product offerings for its consumers. Western Digital Corporation is a USA-based computer hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company.
The countries covered in the computer server market are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK and USA.