HP has successfully consolidated its lead in the Asian Pacific x86 blade server market.

According to IDC, HP led in x86 blade server shipments for the sixth consecutive quarter (since CY Q2, 2007). The company also managed to secure a 48.3 per cent unit share with a year-on-year growth rate of 66.5 per cent in Q2 08. In addition, HP maintained its lead position in factory revenues for the blade server segment and captured a 46 per cent market share.

"Customers are challenged with underutilised resources, limited space and soaring energy costs of their data centre. HP is the preferred vendor to address customers' virtualisation requirements from desktop to data centre," said Tony Parkinson of HP.

Filipus Suwarno of Bank NISP explained that the key advantage of an HP virtual server was the creation of an automated environment.

"With its easy plug-and-play usability, we could migrate existing servers quite easily without incurring much downtime," explained Suwarno.

It should be noted that HP holds a 50.1 per cent unit shipment and factory revenue share of the lucrative global $1.2 billion blade server market. X