Filed under: Apple Professional, Xserve, Apple
Apple moving iron: #10 server brand
DigiTimes is reporting numbers from IDC which show that Apple posted impressive 73% on-quarter growth in server shipments in the first quarter of 2007, moving into 10th place among server brands. Apple shipped 8700 units overall, with the gains attributed to the fifth generation Xserve "adopting Intel Dual Core Xeon processors (Woodcrest)." Since the Xserve are now able to run Linux on a par with other machines, it would be interesting to know how many of these machines are running Linux instead of OS X Server (the report did not say). In any case, Apple is presumably happy either way.
[via Macworld UK]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pierce said 6:26PM on 6-05-2007
We have one Xserve, and are extremely happy with it (We run OS X on it). We're all ready making plans to get another and an XServe RAID.
Highly recommended.
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derek said 8:27PM on 6-05-2007
old news
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hmurchison said 9:43PM on 6-05-2007
Great Apple...see was that so hard? Deliver a nice OS X server and you'll see solid sales. Now do this.
2U Server, 2 Sockets, minimum 6 hard drive bays. 3 PCI-Express slots.
2U Xserve RAID. iSCSI connection with GigE upgradable to 10g ethernet.
Let's keep this party rolling.
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Gerald Buckley said 10:28PM on 6-05-2007
Have three XServes racked up (one's a dual G4). Three more on the way for remote disaster recovery (darned sarbanes! ;)
Would be interesting to know how many installations comprise that 8,700 servers, how many are nodes and how many are for massive parallel processing installs. 'course pigs'll fly first.
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derek said 4:26AM on 6-06-2007
ahhhhhh spam!! and ZUNE SPAM!!!!!!
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Michael Rose said 8:19AM on 6-06-2007
Zune spam deleted. Sheesh.
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tacticus said 8:40AM on 6-06-2007
and a 2RU 2 socket box with just 2.5" sas drives along most of the front
we have usb if we need cd\dvd\floppy(hopefully the last one can die)
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cs0875 said 9:09AM on 6-06-2007
Being in the top 10 is great, but in an industry that is so top heavy is really isn't going to change things one way or the other. I can't find the exact numbers I found the other day, but the #3 IBM sold I think 253,000 severs. While #1 sold 625,000, that is alot more than Apple. I think it is great the Apple jumped into the top 10, but I am not expecting a climb into the top 5 any time soon. 7th would be nice.
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Dovergeek said 9:21AM on 6-06-2007
I work in a data center that has over 5000 servers in it. Our big players are HP, Sun, IBM, and Dell. Of those, most of our UNIX installs are Solaris on Sun hardware, followed by Linux on HP hardware (although we are looking at the Sun V40z for some of that). IBM has done a great job with getting their AIX system positioned with backbone operations like SAN, Grid, and Mainframe.
For Apple to grow they will 1) Need to come up with an innovative enterprise solution that is best served by Mac OS X. Moving in to a market that is already controlled by one of the big 4 is going ot be next to impossible. Execs don't care about "Great Looks" in the data center. 2)Get flexible with their hardware configurations so that we can use 2U and 4U database and application servers and 1U frontend and web servers.
With that said, I do not have any experience with the XServe's so I do not want to discount them. I'm sure Apple has put a lot of R&D time in to making these great boxes. Not to mention, the small business market is probably fueling a majority of these sales as well.
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brian said 9:25AM on 6-06-2007
Wow. I can't even name 10 companies that make servers. There's IBM, Dell, HP/Compaq (I wonder if they count as 1 or 2 brands?), and... ? I didn't know Hitachi or Acer (Acer?!?!?) made servers, and they're both ahead of Apple. I'd like to see the whole list. cs0875's numbers, showing the top positions, says a lot--the top guys move them in the 100's of thousands; Apple sold 8,700. I think the XServe and OS X Server are great products, but really, in such a top-heavy market, this is barely news. I mean really--ACER?!?!? The guys who make that cheesy Ferrari laptop? Yes, *that* Acer.
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Dovergeek said 10:02AM on 6-06-2007
Brian, good comment. BTW, HP's servers are just Compaq Servers re-badged. Instead of Compaq Proliant, they are now HP Proliant.
Also, FWIW...
Acer's Server Page
http://global.acer.com/products/server/index.htm
Hitachi's Server Page
http://www.hitachi.us/Apps/hitachicom/content.jsp?page=index.html&path=jsp/hitachi/forbus/ssg/
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