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Article: Record-breaking quarter for EMEA server market.(SOFTWARE WORLD DIGEST)
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- Software World
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- March 1, 2007
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According to IDC's EMEA Quarterly Server Tracker, the EMEA server market ended 2006 on a strong note, as for the first time it exceeded the $5 billion revenue threshold in the fourth quarter of the year, up 7% over the same quarter the year before. This marked the strongest annual revenue growth rate in nine quarters. Unit shipment growth in the same period was marginal, at 1%, representing 689,000 units sold, but still corresponding to an all-time high for the EMEA server market.
According to Nathaniel Martinez, European Enterprise Servers program manager at IDC, "Server virtualization and consolidation projects are driving most of the growth on the server ...