HP has reportedly booked $1bn in sales for its low cost servers, which are built in partnership with Foxconn.
The bookings signal HP’s success in managing to sell to some of the world’s largest computer operators who typically use Asian companies for equipment.
HP entered into a joint venture with Foxconn in May 2014, to create a range of cloud-optimised servers that targeted service providers.
The servers were created to address the compute related requirements of service providers by introducing products that have low total cost of ownership (TCO), scale, and provided service and support.
The low cost servers, made by what the industry calls original device manufacturers (ODMs), accounted for 8.2% of server sales worldwide during Q4, which is a 31% more than what was recorded previously.
It is just a part of HP’s main server business, and in fiscal 2014, the company earned $12.5bn from the server business, which included the new low cost servers.
HP has found out a way to sell the new server to world’s largest computer operators including Google that generally prefers Asian companies like Quanta Computer for its server based requirements, Bloomberg reported.
HP enterprise group head Antonio Neri said to Bloomberg News in the original as saying: "Not all service providers buy from ODMs.
"Google does. Some others do. Microsoft, they buy from ODMs as well as us.
"It’s been a great success. We have won many, many large deals around the globe."
