HP increased its worldwide server unit shipments by 10 times the total of all other vendors combined, in the third calendar quarter of 2007, according to figures released by industry analyst firm IDC.

During the period, HP captured 32.4 per cent total unit shipment share and grew server factory revenue faster than the market. Highlighting its performance, HP experienced significant growth across its ProLiant, Integrity and BladeSystem families of servers and server blades.

After adding products designed specifically for the midmarket, HP saw increased demand for its HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture and ProLiant family of servers, as more customers looked to refresh their IT infrastructures with lower cost, higher performing server systems.

HP extended its lead as the No. 1 blade server vendor in total blade server units shipped and factory revenue, growing revenue by 79.6 percent year over year and gaining 9 points of market share year over year at the expense of IBM and Dell.

HP also maintained its commanding lead as the No. 1 x86 server vendor, with 33.2 percent unit market share and 33.3 percent total factory revenue share, growing nearly three times the year-over-year unit growth rate of the overall x86 market.

HP increased its total high-end UNIX(2) server share by growing factory revenue 9.8 percent year over year and increasing unit shipment market share by 28.5 percent year over year, while the total high-end server market overall declined.