{"id":10776,"date":"2014-05-13T13:10:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/13\/idc-claims-ibm-vendor-choice-us-enterprise-iaas-market\/"},"modified":"2014-05-13T13:10:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:10:33","slug":"idc-claims-ibm-is-vendor-of-choice-for-us-enterprise-iaas-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/idc-claims-ibm-is-vendor-of-choice-for-us-enterprise-iaas-market\/","title":{"rendered":"IDC claims IBM is vendor of choice for US enterprise IaaS market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An independent study from analyst house IDC has revealed that IBM is the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendor of choice for US enterprise buyers, well ahead of rivals Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services.<\/p>\n<p>Of the three competitors, only Google made the top five vendors, with Cisco, HP and AT&amp;T all ahead. IBM was one of &lsquo;the top three vendors that [respondents] believe can provide infrastructure as a service for private and\/or public, most effectively&rsquo; according to 35% of respondents. Cisco came in at just under 30%, while the remaining vendors had less than one fifth of the vote &ndash; Microsoft and Google scored approximately 16% while Amazon languished at 13%.<\/p>\n<p>The overall market share, according to the more than 400 respondents at US enterprises with over 1000 employees, can be seen below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>David Tapper, VP at IDC and author of the report, said he wanted to understand &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An independent study from analyst house IDC has revealed that IBM is the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendor of choice for US enterprise buyers, well ahead of rivals Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services.<br \/>\nOf the three competitors, only Google&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}