The managed server market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the second quarter of 2009 will show a decline of 39.3 per cent year-on-year, it has been revealed.
Research carried out by IT industry analyst IDC indicates revenue will fall to $2.9 billion (£1.8 billion), the fourth consecutive quarter of year-on-year server spending decline.
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The group went on to forecast that the second quarter of 2009 will represent the peak of annual server declines in both revenue and units, with the number of boxes shipped standing at less than half a million, a fall of around 30 per cent over the last year.
Beatriz Valle, research analyst at IDC's European server team, stated: "The server market slowdown is taking different shapes and timeframes depending on the country, with the UK already severely hit, and continental countries following on that path."
Last month IDC stated that factory revenue in the worldwide server market declined 24.5 per cent year-over-year to $9.9 billion in the first quarter of this year.