Dell & Cisco have seen Server Growth!

Dell was the only top-tier server vendor in the third quarter to see sales gains in a server market that continues to see revenues decline, due in large part to an uncertain global economy, according to analysts with Gartner and IDC.

The numbers reported on last week, Dell remained in the number-three position in terms of revenue with growth between 8.2 percent and 10.3 percent compared with the same period last year  however it saw its market share grow as leaders at IBM and Hewlett-Packard saw sales decline, the analysts firms said.

In addition, Dell and Cisco Systems, with its Unified Computing Systems converged data centre product line, were the only ones in the top five to see server shipments increase, according to Gartner numbers.