updated based on Z and System solution

From the IBM Power Systems often publish new and updated based on Z and System solution, the IBM server market strategy is a combination of software and hardware, this also explains why the shipments decreased, but the revenue increase. But as it was Server x played any role in the IBM server product line? If System Z, Power Systems is more sales to value-added solution, the Server x I'm afraid just impulse role, but from the IBM shipments continue to decline and associative set through mergers and acquisitions will be raising its market share to the global server market in 3%, Server x impulse power is not very strong, perhaps in the same on the basis of X86 architecture, lose the support of Server solutions in X with X86 under the framework of the HP, Dell compared to competitive advantage is not obvious. This discount is Lenovo's acquisition of Server X in order to reach the top of the global server market.

But according to legend in the future the server market, main and force direction in overseas markets, face the HP, Dell and IBM (Power Systems) competition is unavoidable, but compared with the three enterprises, solution weakness is obvious. If you can't make a breakthrough in the solution on the words, then Server x business for both for its grab market share and revenue significance is not great.

But when we go back to the China market, Server x advantage is quite obvious. From the Internet Consumer Research Center (ZDC) report shows, in the past March, IBM to 38.9% in the proportion of attention as the most popular brand user attention. The Dell, concern ratio of 22.3%, HP and Lenovo ThinkServer respectively to 12.4%, 10.3% of the interest rate in the third row, four. And the rest of the list brand attention than columns were below 10%. In the application level of Chinese server user has not been completely into the relevant to the needs of manufacturers to provide software and hardware solution phase, Lenovo can through merger and Server x, ThinkServer and own brand server with occupy market share more than 10% global server market in 50%, thought that the backing to expand overseas market, and not as the acquisition of IBM PCD so, to rush in the overseas market competition, the result is nothing, but after the Chinese market as the focus of the strategy to make Lenovo PC go today the global PC market second position.

Of course, in this process, Lenovo needs in software, application solutions, storage are required to proceed with determination, after all these years of Lenovo in the enterprise business didn't force, just from the beginning of last year, through a partnership with EMC decided to break through in the enterprise market. But to really formed in the overseas market and IBM, HP and Dell competition not only need time, need capital investment. Because the IBM spent $2000000000 to develop the PureSystems platform, HP, Dell these years the merger and acquisition, enterprise business (including server) PC to compete with the industry as long as the control of the supply chain and cost are completely different, the difficulty to be much larger, this association in the acquisition of the former must carefully, otherwise only on IBM Server x brand spell cost and price, in overseas markets will not improve their share, revenue and profit may not have won.