Flat And Shifting

Overall server revenue dipped 1.9 percent year over year in the fourth quarter while shipments declined 0.6 percent, according to Gartner. For the full year, revenue declined 2.7 percent while shipments grew 0.1 percent. Gartner said that while hyper-scale data centers grew, driving server sales, enterprises grew at a lesser rate as customers shift spending to the cloud and virtualized solutions. Regionally, signs of growth were hard to come by, with the Asia-Pacific region the one market to show growth in both revenue and shipments.