Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure Market Revenue Grows 8.1% to $8.4 Billion in Third Quarter of 2016
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 8.1% year over year to $8.4 billion in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16). Ethernet switch continues to be the growth leader, as the market awaits new hyperscale datacenter builds to spur additional growth.
The overall share of cloud IT infrastructure sales climbed to 39.2% of all IT infrastructure spending in 3Q16, up from 34.7% a year ago. Revenue from infrastructure sales to private cloud grew by 8.2% to $3.3 billion, and to public cloud by 8.0% to $5.1 billion. In comparison, revenue in the traditional (non-cloud) IT infrastructure segment decreased 10.8% year over year in the third quarter. Private cloud infrastructure growth was led by Ethernet switch at 60.8% year-over-year growth, followed by storage at 9.0%, and server at 3.2%. Public cloud growth was also led by Ethernet switch at 46.2% year-over-year growth, followed by server at 6.8% storage at 3.0% year over year. In traditional IT deployments, server declined the most (12.9% year over year) with Ethernet switch and storage declining 1.6% and 8.6%, respectively.
“New cloud datacenters have begun to launch, but in the third quarter the effect on the cloud IT infrastructure market was minimal,” said Kuba Stolarski, research director for Computing Platforms at IDC. “As network upgrades continue to prop up cloud growth overall, the hyperscale cloud datacenters are coming and they will drive new server and storage deployments over the next few quarters. Recently, there has been renewed strength in emerging markets and among smaller cloud service providers. As OpenStack has become easier to implement and maintain by a growing population of capable system administrators, private cloud options are becoming more viable in an increasing set of use cases and with a wider set of deployment parameters.”
From a regional perspective, vendor revenue from cloud IT infrastructure sales grew fastest in Middle East & Africa at 36.7% year over year in 3Q16, followed by Japan at 29.9%, Latin America at 21.7%, Western Europe at 16.8%, Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) at 11.9%, Canada at 5.3%, Central & Eastern Europe at 4.3%, and the United States at 2.9%.
Top 5 Vendor Groups, Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure Vendor Revenue, Q3 2016 (Revenues are in Millions, Excludes double counting of storage and servers) | |||||||||||||||
Vendor Group |
3Q16 |
3Q16 Market |
3Q15 |
3Q15 Market |
3Q16/3Q15 |
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1. Dell Technologies* | $1,301 | 15.5% | $1,370 | 17.6% | -5.0% | ||||||||||
1. Hewlett Packard Enterprise* | $1,250 | 14.9% | $1,247 | 16.0% | 0.2% | ||||||||||
3. Cisco | $1,029 | 12.2% | $766 | 9.8% | 34.2% | ||||||||||
4. Lenovo* | $297 | 3.5% | $270 | 3.5% | 10.0% | ||||||||||
4. Huawei* | $274 | 3.3% | $163 | 2.1% | 68.4% | ||||||||||
4. NetApp* | $239 | 2.8% | $258 | 3.3% | -7.5% | ||||||||||
4. Inspur* | $218 | 2.6% | $160 | 2.1% | 36.5% | ||||||||||
ODM Direct | $2,134 | 25.4% | $2,100 | 27.0% | 1.6% | ||||||||||
Others | $1,672 | 19.9% | $1,449 | 18.6% | 15.4% | ||||||||||
Total | $8,413 | 100% | $7,783 | 100% | 8.1% | ||||||||||
IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, January 2017 |
* Table Note: Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise ranked number 1 in a statistical tie; Lenovo, Huawei, NetApp, and Inspur all ranked number 4 in 3Q16 in a statistical tie. IDC declares a statistical tie in the worldwide cloud IT infrastructure market when there is less than one percent difference in the revenue share of two or more vendors.
In addition to the table above, an interactive graphic showing worldwide market share for the top 5 cloud IT infrastructure vendors in 3Q15 and 3Q16 is available here. The chart is intended for public use in online news articles and social media. Instructions on how to embed this graphic can be found by viewing this press release on IDC.com.
IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker is designed to provide clients with a better understanding of what portion of the server, disk storage systems, and networking hardware markets are being deployed in cloud environments. This tracker will break out vendors’ revenue by the hardware technology market into public and private cloud environments for historical data and also provide a five-year forecast by the technology market.