Channel Best-Sellers: Systems/Storage

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Blade Servers

When it comes to blade server best-sellers, it's a two-horse race between IBM and Hewlett-Packard. For the January through June 2007 period, IBM's dollar volume of blade server sales through distributors reached 55.1 percent, a 2.9 percent jump over the 52.2 percent recorded for the comparable 2006 period. HP, meanwhile saw a dip in the dollar volume market share of its blade sales through distributors, according to data from the NPD Group/Distributor Track.

But solution providers say both IBM, Armonk, N.Y., and HP, Palo Alto, Calif., have opened up a new battlefront in the blade market by introducing new systems specifically designed for midmarket customers.

HP's new BladeSystem c3000 blade chassis runs all current c-Class server blades and can fit up to eight blades. IBM's BladeCenter S runs on 110-volt power and has room for six blade servers. Both are smaller-capacity systems that plug directly into a wall socket and are targeted at smaller businesses.

-- Craig Zarley

Blade Servers 1st half 2007 Market Share Market Share Change 1st half '07 vs. 1st half '06 IBM 55.10% +2.9 Hewlett-Packard 44.80% -3.0 All Other 0.10% +0.1 * Ranking based on 1st half 2007 share of sales dollar volume. Highlighted vendor gained greatest share from 1st half 2006 to 1st half 2007 Source: The NPD Group/Distribution Track (Incudes GTDC Data), www.npd.com/lps/distributortrack

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