Gartner reported that IBM continues to hold the number one position in worldwide server revenue share, with 32 percent revenue share for 2006. IBM has held this leadership in worldwide server revenue share for 8 consecutive years according to Gartner.
IBM's leadership position in global server revenue in 2006 was bolstered by noteworthy revenue growth in its System z business.
In 2006
IBM introduced the System z Business Class mainframe, teamed with industry leaders such as Oracle and SAP to drive innovation on the platform, and extended its customer base and drove new workloads onto the platform via specialty processors for Linux and Java workloads.
IBM
also grew revenue with its System x business, which includes IBM BladeCenter system, by 7 percent YTY in 2006. According to Gartner, IBM led the year with 41.1 percent of revenue share for blades in 2006. In 2006 IBM introduced two new high performance BladeCenter systems, BladeCenter H and BladeCenter HT, which allow data to travel up to 10 times faster than previously possible across corporate networks with 1Gb equipment.
IBM also maintained its leadership in UNIX servers with 30.1 percent server revenue share in 2006.
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