IBM sells fewer servers

IBM has in the past quarter, much less servers sold. The revenue from the hardwaretak descended almost a quarter compared with a year ago. IBM achieved its lowest turnover since the beginning of 2009; the turnover decreased in the last two years again and again.

The revenues from the systems and technology division of IBM were down 23 percent to 2.4 billion dollars, or 1.7 billion euros, is evident from the quarterly results of the company. This includes the servers of IBM; Big Blue sold its pc division almost a decade ago to Lenovo. The global servermarkt grew last year right light, it appears from the figures of marktvorser Gartner.

The revenue from sales of IBM’s System X servers decreased by 18 percent; the Power Systems sales with 22 percent. IBM got even 40 percent less revenue from the sale of his Systems Z mainframes. In January ditch IBM a contract with Lenovo for the sale of a part of his servertak, but that acquisition has yet to be completed. IBM is doing particularly bad in emerging markets such as certain countries in Asia. Big Blue deserved something more with the sale of software.

IBM achieved a turnover of 22.5 billion dollars, or 16.2 billion euros, 4 percent fewer than a year earlier. That is the lowest sales since the first quarter of 2009 and the eighth decline in a row. The profit declined 21 percent to 2.4 billion dollars, or 1.7 billion euros.