China’s Lenovo ranked world's No 4 server supplier on strong second-quarter sales

Chinese technology powerhouse Lenovo Group remained in a statistical tie with networking equipment giant Cisco Systems as the world's fourth-largest supplier of servers by revenue in the quarter ended June 30, industry estimates show.

The global market for enterprise servers in the second quarter grew 6.1 per cent to US$13.5 billion, technology research firm IDC reported on Wednesday. 

This was up from US$12.7 billion in the same period last year, on total shipments of 2.29 million units, it added.

It marks the fifth consecutive quarter of year-on-year revenue growth for this market amid strong demand in the United States and countries in the Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan.

"The recent growth trend in the server market is confirmation of the larger information technology investment taking place," said Al Gillen, IDC's vice-president for servers and system software research.

Lenovo, the world's biggest supplier of personal computers, seized a worldwide server market share of 7 per cent in the second quarter on revenue of US$949.2 million. 

That marked a 556.1 per cent increase from its US$144.7 million revenue and 1.1 per cent market share a year earlier.