Worldwide server sales posted their major jump since 2003 throughout the second quarter as Hewlett-Packard outsell rival IBM to take the top spot between server vendors, IDC stated. Server profits rose 11 percent all through the second quarter, to US$10.9 billion. These figures marked the second successive quarter of income growth for the server market and the highest pace of growth since 2003.

"The expansion that we're seeing is impending mostly from servers in the volume space," said Jean Bozman, research vice president for enterprise servers. IDC describe volume servers as systems estimate less than $25,000. In spite of burly second-quarter growth, worldwide server income is still below significant highs recorded in 2008 due to double-digit downfall in 2009 sales, Bozman said, citing the result of the economic downturn. "Things are moving in the right way," she said.