Server shipments have increased 13% globally over Q1 of 2015, with revenues growing 17.9% when compared to the same quarter last year.
In the first four months of the year, there have been over 2.6 million servers shipped, amounting to $13.4 billion in revenues, compared to 2.3 million and $11.3 billion in Q1 2014, respectively.
HP was been found to be the market leader with 23.8% of worldwide server market revenue share in Q1 2015. The company is followed by Dell and IBM.
According to Gartner, Lenovo registered the largest increase with a 658.2% growth. All of the top five global vendors have seen revenue increasing in the first quarter of 2015 except IBM.
As for server shipments, HP has also ranked first, but its market share dropped from 22.6% in 2014, to 20% this year.
In Q1, the regions with the highest growth rates in terms of unit shipments were North America (22.9%), the Middle East and Africa (20.8%), and Asia/Pacific (13.6%).
Adrian O’Connell, research director at Gartner, said: "The first quarter of 2015 was a particularly strong start to the year, with the strongest shipment growth since the third quarter of 2010, when the market was recovering from the downturn. It was also the second-largest-volume quarter ever.
"The market was driven by particularly strong demand from the hyper scale area, which benefited North America, in particular. This comes at a time when other regions are struggling, due to price pressure driven by the appreciation of the U.S. dollar. The strength in North America was strong enough to offset declines in Latin America and Japan. EMEA was barely positive, with 1 percent volume growth.
"x86 server shipments increased 13.2 percent from the first quarter of 2014, and revenue increased 14.5 percent. RISC/Itanium Unix server shipments declined 2.9 percent, while revenue declined 3.1 percent compared with the same quarter last year. The ‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed an increase of 95.1 percent in terms of revenue."
