Saturday, June 24, 2017

Worldwide Converged Systems Revenue Increased 4.6% Year Over Year in the First Quarter of 2017 with Vendor Revenue at $2.67 Billion

The FINANCIAL -- According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly #Converged Systems Tracker, the worldwide converged systems market revenues increased 4.6% year over year to $2.67 billion during the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17). The market consumed 1.48 exabytes of new storage capacity during the quarter, which was up only 7.1% compared to the same period a year ago. "Converged systems have become an important source of innovation and growth for the data center infrastructure market," said Eric Sheppard, research director, Enterprise Storage & Converged Systems. “These solutions represent a conduit for the key technologies driving much needed data center modernization and efficiencies such as flash, software-defined infrastructure and private cloud platforms." Converged Systems Segments IDC's converged systems market view offers four segments: integrated infrastructure, certified reference systems, integrated platforms, and hyperconverged systems. Integrated infrastructure and certified reference systems are pre-integrated, vendor-certified systems containing server hardware, disk storage systems, networking equipment, and basic element/systems management software. Integrated Platforms are integrated systems that are sold with additional pre-integrated packaged software and customized system engineering optimized to enable such functions as application development software, databases, testing, and integration tools. Hyperconverged systems collapse core storage and compute functionality into a single, highly virtualized solution. A key characteristic of hyperconverged systems that differentiate these solutions from other integrated systems is their scale-out architecture and their ability to provide all compute and storage functions through the same x86 server-based resources. During the first quarter of 2017, the combined integrated infrastructure and certified reference systems market generated revenues of $1.37 billion, which represented a year-over-year decrease of 3.3% and 51.3% of the total market. Dell Inc. was the largest supplier of this combined market segment with $647.8 million in sales, or 47.2% share of the market segment. Integrated Platform sales declined 13.3% year over year during the first quarter of 2017, generating $635.9 million worth of sales. This amounted to 23.8% of the total market revenue. Oracle was the top-ranked supplier of Integrated Platforms during the quarter, generating revenues of $348.7 million and capturing a 54.8% share of the market segment.

https://www.finchannel.com/technology/65975-worldwide-converged-systems-revenue-increased-4-6-year-over-year-in-the-first-quarter-of-2017-with-vendor-revenue-at-2-67-billion

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