Research firm Gartner revealed its world server sales analysis report. According to the research report, server business continued showing upward movement in fourth quarter also. But Gartner analysts predicted that server sales may see a negative movement this year. IBM remained at the top in this business with revenue of 5,213,930,594 USD in server business.  

According to the report, revenue for all types of servers grew 16.4% from last year while number of sold servers increased by 6.5% in the quarter. IBM takes the lead in the worldwide server market with USD 5.2 billion in sales and in market share terms, IBM captured 35.5 percent of the global market. HP stood second to IBM in revenue with 30.4% of the market. But HP shipped most units in the quarter, a market share of 32.2%.
 
"2010 was a year that saw pent-up x86-based server demand produce some significant growth on a worldwide level," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner.  "The introduction of new processors from Intel and AMD toward the end of 2009 helped fuel a pretty significant replacement cycle of servers that had been maintained in place during the economic downturn in 2009". Report also says that blade server growth and 'skinless' servers in x86 range helped a double digit growth rate. IBM's new mainframe platform also helped company boost its growth with an increase of 68.3 percent for IBM's System Z platforms in Q4.Three world areas with highest revenue growth rate are North America (24.5%), Asia/Pacific (22.4%) and Latin America (12.3%).  

Report says that revenue grew in Europe, Middle East and Africa at 10.4 percent. Japan remained exception with a decline of 4.4%.