#DellTechnologies earned the most #cloudinfrastructure revenue last year, according to data released by #IDC this week. The analyst's Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, says that Dell Technologies owned 17.6 percent of the cloud infrastructure market (which includes server, storage and ethernet switch for cloud IT, including public and private cloud) with $5.7 billion in revenue - a 6.6 percent increase from 2015. #HPE, #Cisco, #Huawei
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (which includes its H3C partnership in China) took the number two spot with 16.3 percent market share and $5.3 billion in revenue - an 11.4 percent gain from 2015.
IDC figured Cisco to be the third biggest cloud infrastructure vendor in 2016. The vendor captured 11.6 percent market share, with revenue growing 30.2 percent from 2015 to about $3.8 billion.
Cisco's revenue increase was topped only by Huawei, which saw revenue increase 62.3 percent from 2015 to $1.2 billion.
Huawei earned a statistical tie (meaning revenue share difference was no greater than one percent) for the fourth place spot in the global market alongside Lenovo ($1.1 billion), IBM ($1 billion) and NetApp ($1 billion).
Overall, the global cloud infrastructure market grew 9.2 percent year over year to $32.6 billion last year, IDC said.
"Growth slowed to single digits in 2016 in the cloud IT infrastructure market as hyperscale cloud datacenter growth continued its pause," Kuba Stolarski, research director for Computing Platforms at IDC, said in a statement.
"Network upgrades continue to be the focus of public cloud deployments, as network bandwidth has become by far the largest bottleneck in cloud datacenters. After some delays for a few hyperscalers, datacenter buildouts and refresh are expected to accelerate throughout 2017, built on newer generation hardware, primarily using Intel's Skylake architecture."
Of note, Japan saw the largest sales increase in Q4 2016 at 42.3 percent. The U.S. saw the lowest at 0.1 percent.
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