HP accelerates market share gains

HP has achieved market share gains across all networking segments in every region of the world in the first calendar quarter of 2011.According to a recently issued report by Dell'Oro Group, "HP Networking continues to grow faster than the market while increasing its revenue market share at the expense of the competition." 

Specifically, the report reveals that HP gained 2.5 percentage points worldwide for layer 2/layer 3 Ethernet switching revenue market share in the first quarter of 2011. Cisco's share fell 5.8 points in the same period. HP also gained 2.5 percentage points in router and 2.2 points in wireless local area network (WLAN) revenue market share over the same period, while Cisco's share declined by 3.1 points in router and 0.4 points in WLAN. 

"Customers are telling us that there is a significant sense of urgency to eliminate their inflexible, complex and expensive networks. As our market share gains demonstrate, customers around the world are choosing HP to create networks that are more flexible and easier to manage - better preparing them to adapt to cloud and other dynamic computing models." said, Subhodeep Bhattacharya, Director, HP Networking, HP India.