Datamine November 30th 2005

Analyst Docs: 2.4%: Percentage by which servers grew in
EMEA in Q2 2005, taking the factory revenue to $4 bn. This is the slowest growth
rate recorded in nine consecutive quarters of positive revenue growth-IDC

23.9 bn: As a whole, the US server market is estimated to
reach $23.9 bn by 2009, with a 4.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the
next five years-IDC

67.1%: the growth in blade server shipments in Q2 2005 on
a y-o-y basis, while factory revenue gained 87.9% y-o-y-IDC

88%: Intel's server CPU market share in Q2 2005. AMD
saw its share of the x86 server processor market grow 51% in Q2 2005, from 7.4%
to 11.2%- Mercury Research

17,61,000: Number of servers sold in Q2 2005-Gartner

25%: Anticipated percentage of blade servers to be sold
in Europe in 2009. In revenue terms, server blades are forecast to account for
$1.7 bn of vendor revenue in 2009, representing a CAGR of 40.4% through the
forecast period. -IDC

$5.2 bn: Linux server revenues in Q4 2004. IBM regained
the lead in Unix servers worldwide with 36.3% share in terms of factory revenue.
HP took the number two spot with 27.6% market share and Sun had 25.3% market
share, based on factory revenue. Overall, Linux server revenue grew 35.6% y-o-y,
while unit shipments grew 29.1% y-o-y. Here HP led the market with 26% revenue
share, followed by IBM and Dell with 23.5% and 15.8% share respectively. -IDC

Focus: Virtual Servers

A virtual server is a fully functioning Web server that resides within the
same physical location of a true Web server. Multiple virtual servers can reside
on a single Web Server. With the help of software, the server is split and
apportioned to different customers. From the customer standpoint, it will 'feel'
as if they have the server to themselves, by having limited, but guaranteed
sources to use.

$15 bn: Spending on virtual servers by 2009, according to
IDC. Customers are rapidly adopting virtualized servers-partitioning smaller
2-4 way x86 systems using software developed specifically for the volume server
space-in an attempt to contain costs, leverage existing IT resources, and
seamlessly handle growing workloads

46%: The percentage of new servers purchased in 2006 that
will be virtualized, as per IDC estimates. According to estimates more than
three-quarter of all companies with 500-plus employees are deploying virtual
servers.

India accounted for 8% Asia-Pacific server revenues

According to Gartner, Asia-Pacific server revenues in the first half of 2005
grew 12.9% compared to the first half of 2004. In the second quarter alone, the
growth of server revenue was reported at 15.8% y-o-y.

India's Server revenues up 30%, Tops in ASEAN region

India's server market revenue grew 30% year-on-year, during the
second quarter of this year, and continues to be the largest in the ASEAN
region, according to a research report by Gartner.

"Its healthy economic conditions were reflected in
increasing business confidence and foreign investment during the quarter,"
says Gartner in report on the server market for the first half of the current
fiscal..

Server demand was the strongest in banking, finance,
manufacturing and services sectors, with the public sector also active, the
report says.

However, in the Asia-Pacific region, India is well behind China,
Korea and Australia, the three countries together contributing 67% of the total
APAC server revenues the report adds.