According to market research firm IDC, European, African and Middle-Eastern server sales have fallen by 12 percent year-on-year.

The downwards trend in server purchases comes as business suffer from European economic woes. The continuing decline was the second consecutive annual decline in revenue which totalled $3.1 billion compared to the $3.5 biilion seen in the first quarter of 2011.

HP continued to hold the top spot in the market despite seeing sales fall by over 19 percent, while IBM and Dell came second and third respectively.