Kuala Lumpur, June 30, 2005 – IDC recently concluded a study on the competitive analysis of server vendors in Malaysia, entitled “Malaysia Server 2005 – 2009 Vendor Analysis: A Competitive Vendor Analysis”. In this study, IDC notes that a total of 24,306 units of servers -- high-end, midrange, and volume servers -- valued at US$186 million were shipped in Malaysia in 2004. The total Malaysian server market grew marginally by 0.8% in unit shipment and increased by 6.3% in revenue from 2003 to 2004.

"The growing IT usage and greater proliferation of enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), and business intelligence (BI) tools in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) segment as well as the introduction of extremely competitively priced one-way tower servers will underpin strong demand for volume servers," says Andrew Wong, Research Manager, IDC Malaysia.

This IDC study provides a competitive analysis of enterprise server vendors in Malaysia for 2005. Using the IDC Leadership Grid, the study reveals the expected positions of each vendor within the enterprise server market. Market sizing and forecasts are also presented to provide better knowledge of potential markets by server range within the enterprise server area. The Leadership Grid places IBM and HP as the most capable companies among three high-end server vendors in Malaysia. Similar to the high-end enterprise server market, the Leadership Grid places HP and IBM as the most capable companies among the midrange server vendors in Malaysia. There are five notable volume enterprise server vendors in the Malaysian market; with three multinational vendors taking the leadership positions while two other notable local players are placed in the crisis potential corner.

“Server consolidation will still be a major driver for the Malaysian server market”, says Mr. Wong. "Equipped with more information and faced with numerous business and technological challenges, companies managing back-end systems are and will continue to look at consolidated, highly manageable server solutions, preferring to run a universal, scalable server as a centralized machine across the enterprise”, he added.

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