Cloud consolidation has been running fast and furious over the past 12 months or so, possibly equaling or even surpassing the frenetic M&A activity of the previous year. But here’s the thing: It ain’t over yet, according to Forrester Research.
Per Forrester’s FORR -0.61% Predictions 2016: The Cloud Accelerates report:
The consolidation and shakeout will accelerate in 2016, which will force many current providers to refocus on a narrower field, retreat from cloud, or exit. The major public cloud providers will gain strength, with #Amazon, #IBM #SoftLayer, and #Microsoft capturing a greater share of the business cloud services market.
In 2015, IBM IBM 1.49% was especially busy, snapping up #Gravitant, #BlueBox, and #Cleversafe to build its cloud computing story. But #HewlettPackard, #Cisco, and #Datapipe were also buyers in what seemed to be a nutty round-robin of acquisitions.
And then there’s the proposed $67 billion #Dell - EMC deal that, if completed, would concentrate the cloud efforts from #VMware, Dell and #EMC EMC 0.96% in the #Virtustream unit.
http://fortune.com/2015/11/16/cloud-consolidation-2016/
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