According to IDC, corporate sales of computer servers was up 4.4% in 2005. Doesn’t sound like a lot until you realize that it represents a move from $49.1B in 2004 to $51.3B for 2005. That’s a nice bump. The usual suspects were in the mix (IBM, Dell, HP, et al). IBM remained ranked in the top spot with a 32.9% chunk of the overall server market. No big surprises there.

According to Red Herring:

Because servers are used by most companies ranging from small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) to large corporations, market figures indicate that enterprise tech spending increased.

On top of that, shipments of hard disk drives jumped up 21% in Q4, driven primarily by demand in the portable/mobile markets.

That’s good news, folks.

Also of no big surprise, Sun Microsystems continued to lose market share, falling down to 9.5% of the overall server market. How long they have left is anyone’s guess. The question to me becomes one of reinvention. Will Sun successfully reinvent itself a la Apple, or will they continue to dwindle in influence? Either way, and much to my dismay as I’m a big fan of Sun, it is only a matter of time.

Cheers.