The white box server market has seen considerable growth due to a variety of factors.
•The dimensions of the white box server market have expanded at a swift pace recently. The projected growth is from $18.55 billion in 2024 to $21.74 billion in 2025, showcasing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.2%.
This expansion during the historical period can be accounted for by factors such as the impact of the open compute project (OCP), a rise in data center constructions, hardware commoditization, hyper-scale data center rollouts, and independence from vendors.
The white box server market is expected to maintain its strong growth trajectory in upcoming years.
• In the coming years, the white box server market size is forecasted to undergo massive expansion. The prediction is that by 2029, it will have swelled to a size of $46.52 billion, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.0%.
Factors like the increasing emphasis on energy efficiency, the need for high-performance computing, concentration on security and compliance, market liberalization and competition, and initiatives centered on digital transformation contribute to the anticipated growth in the forecasted period. When observing the future trends, it is clear that customization and open architecture, GPU acceleration for AI workloads, software-defined infrastructure, the switch to 5g networks, and the competition with conventional OEMs play significant roles.
The rise in data centers is anticipated to fuel the expansion of the white box server market. Data centers are defined as establishments that provide shared access to applications and data through an advanced network, computing, and storage framework. A white box server serves as an operating system and can be utilized as virtualization software in data centers. For instance, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a US government agency, reported in September 2024 that the US has nearly 5,000 data centers. Demand for these facilities is projected to grow at an approximate rate of 9% per year until 2030. Therefore, the increase in data centers is a key driver of the white box server market's growth.
The white box server market covered in this report is segmented –
1) By Form Factor: Rack And Tower Servers, Blade Servers, Density Optimized Servers
2) By Business Type: Data Centers, Enterprise Customers
3) By Processor: X86 Servers, Non-X86 Servers
4) By Operating System: Linux, Other Operating System
Subsegments:
1) By Rack And Tower Servers: 1U Rack Servers, 2U Rack Servers, 3U And Above Rack Servers, Tower Servers
2) By Blade Servers: Half-Height Blade Servers, Full-Height Blade Servers, Vertical Blade Servers
3) By Density Optimized Servers: Microservers, High-Density Servers
The white box server market is witnessing a trend of product innovation as companies strive to maintain their market presence through the introduction of revolutionary products. For illustration, Supermicro., an American technology company, unveiled Liquid-Cooled SuperClusters aimed at AI data centers in October 2024. The product, which is built around the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform, has been designed to address the increasing energy needs of AI infrastructures and encourages sustainability by utilizing liquid cooling technology. Every rack is capable of supporting 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and 32 NVIDIA Grace CPUs, thereby offering exascale AI computing functionality.
Major companies operating in the white box server market include:
• Fujitsu Ltd.
• Foxconn Electronics Inc.
• Hon Hai Precision Industry Company Ltd.
• Dell Inc.
• Huawei Investment and Holding Co. Ltd.
• Cisco Systems Inc.
• Pegatron Corporation
• Quanta Computer Inc.
• Compal Inc.
• Jabil Inc.
• Wistron Corporation
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
• Inventec Corporation
• Wiwynn Corporation
• Celestica Inc.
• Super Micro Computer Inc.
• ASpeed Technology Inc.
• ZT Systems Co
• Hyve Solutions Corp.
• MiTAC Holdings Corp
• Silicon Mechanics Inc.
• Iron Systems Inc.
• Equus Computer Systems
• Penguin Computing Inc.
• Servers Direct LLC
• Stack Velocity Group.
North America was the largest region in the white box server market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the white box server market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa.