Cloud IT infrastructure market grew 7.3 percent to $9.2 billion in Q4 2016, and 9.2 percent to $32.6 billion in 2016, said IDC.
Dell Technologies lost share in the worldwide Cloud IT infrastructure space, while Cisco gains the most in terms of market share.
IDC tracks vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products — server, storage, and Ethernet switch — for cloud IT, including public and private cloud.
“Growth slowed to single digits in 2016 in the cloud IT infrastructure market as hyperscale cloud datacenter growth continued its pause,” said Kuba Stolarski, research director for Computing Platforms at IDC.
Enterprises are focusing on network upgrades as part of their public cloud deployments, as network bandwidth has become the largest bottleneck in cloud data centers.
Top Cloud IT vendors
Dell Technologies is leading the Cloud IT infrastructure market with 17.6 percent share in 2016 against 18.1 percent in 2015.
HPE is the second largest Cloud IT infrastructure vendor with 16.3 percent in 2016. HPE increased its share from 16 percent.
Cisco also increased its share to 11.6 percent from 9.7 percent in the global Cloud IT infrastructure market, said IDC.
Huawei’s Cloud IT infrastructure share increased to 3.7 percent from 2.5 percent.
IBM’s share fell to 3.1 percent from 4.2 percent. NetApp’s share in Cloud IT infrastructure market dropped to 3.1 percent from 3.5 percent.
Data center investments and refresh are expected to accelerate throughout 2017, built on newer generation hardware, primarily using Intel’s Skylake architecture.
Q4 2016
Cloud IT infrastructure sales as a share of IT spending increased to 37.2 percent from 33.4 percent a year ago.
Revenue from infrastructure sales to private cloud grew 10.2 percent to $3.8 billion, and to public cloud by 5.3 percent to $5.4 billion.
Revenue in the traditional (non-cloud) IT infrastructure segment decreased 9.
Private cloud infrastructure growth was led by Ethernet switch at 52.7 percent growth, followed by server at 9.3 percent, and storage at 3.6 percent.
Public cloud growth was also led by Ethernet switch at 30 percent growth, followed by server at 2.4 percent and a 2.1 percent decline in storage.
In traditional IT deployments, storage declined 10.8 percent, Ethernet switch fell 3.4 percent and server dropped 9 percent.
Baburajan K
