Why did the sales of servers go up considering industries that are traditional IT products buyers, such as the communications sectors went down in 2011?
“There were cost cutting and infrastructure consolidation projects. For instance, some companies reduced the number of locations where they kept their servers and replaced some of their equipment in the process. When such projects were conducted, there were also cases when additional solutions were added, such as data recovery in case of disaster,” said Mihai Guran, server, storage and network equipment enterprise sales manager of HP Romania.
On the other hand, sales were also up because of the increasing popularity of cloud-based solutions, which allow companies to rent infrastructure rather than buy it. Two such companies that buy HP servers are Hostway and Voxility, Guran said.
Orders came from several market segments including small and medium-sized businesses and the public sector and were received by HP directly or by its more than 100 partners in Romania.
“I see moderate growth in the fourth quarter, but it is too soon to draw the line – we are still making deliveries and discussing contracts.”