Hewlett-Packard Proliant servers profit fell 21%

Hewlett-Packard recently released its third-quarter earnings report, the overall revenues of 27.45 billion U.S. dollars, down 2.1%, net profit of 16.4 billion U.S. dollars, hp laptop battery down 19% year on year.

Bear the brunt of Hewlett-Packard servers, enterprise storage and server sectors, including Hewlett-Packard Proliant servers, ntegrity Itanium servers, StorageWorks storage and tape drives, etc. product lines, sales of 36.6 billion U.S. dollars, down 22.8%, profit of 3.56 billion U.S. dollars, down 34.6% .

Server and storage product line failed to tightening in the global server market conditions immunizations, the industry-standard server products, including Proliant rack, tower, blades and blade chassis BladeSystems and so on, sales of 2.26 billion U.S. dollars, down 21.3 %. Hewlett-Packard launched in April this year, the introduction of Intel's Nehalem Xeon 5500 series processors, and the use of AMD six-core Opteron 2400 and the Opteron 8400's Proliant G6 servers, HP's chief financial officer Cathie Lesjak said: "The next generation G6 servers help HP Server of 14% of the revenue increase, compared the previous quarter. Proliant G6 server received good market performance, but the x64 server, there have been down compared to last year, but the x64 server from other vendors to perform equally poorly. " In addition, high-end servers, including HP's Itanium servers and ancient PA-RISC and Alpha systems, sales of 578 million U.S. dollars, down an astonishing 30.3%.

Lesjak be attributed to "customer decided to extend the cycle continued." HP disk and tape storage unit sales of 8.2 billion U.S. dollars, and the second quarter was flat, Lesjak think this is because the U.S. storage market stability. According to analysis of the server market in the future will become increasingly stable, Hewlett-Packard President and CEO Mark Hurd to HP's servers are still very optimistic about the prospects: "From a market point of view is an important moment, we are now the majority of customers are planning in 2010, We look forward to in 2010 will be better than this year, it is important that the customers will be choosing to spend the money. "