{"id":11156,"date":"2014-07-20T23:25:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T23:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jul\/21\/cloud-hardware-spending-passed-4bn-across-emea-2014-idc-asserts\/"},"modified":"2014-07-20T23:25:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T23:25:38","slug":"cloud-hardware-spending-passed-4bn-across-emea-for-2014-idc-asserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-hardware-spending-passed-4bn-across-emea-for-2014-idc-asserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud hardware spending passed $4bn across EMEA for 2014, IDC asserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prognosticators have been at the tea leaves and crystal balls again. This time, an IDC study has found that cloud hardware spending will break $4bn (&pound;2.34bn) across EMEA in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The report, entitled <em>EMEA IT Infrastructure Hardware for Public and Private Cloud 2011-2018 Forecast<\/em>, saw year on year growth of 19% and &ldquo;confirmed that cloud is the major disruption factor in the EMEA infrastructure hardware market&rdquo;, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>According to the researchers 15% of infrastructure spend in EMEA will be related to cloud environments in 2014. This went up from a miserly 8% in 2011 and will grow to more than 22% by 2018.<\/p>\n<p>$3.4bn (&pound;1.99bn) was spent on hardware going to cloud environments in EMEA through 2013, with the majority of it (42%) going on public cloud environments. 38% of spend went to on-premise private clouds, and 20% by hosted dedicated private clouds, showing a relatively even mix.<\/p>\n<p>This won&rsquo;t last though, with figures showing that public cloud spend will accelerate to the point of contributing almost $3bn in spend alone by 2018, as can be seen in the graph below:<\/p>\n<div><link href=\"http:\/\/accounts.icharts.net\/widget\/assets\/ichartwidget.css?v=2.1\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<div class=\"ichartsembed\">\n<div id=\"ichartsembed\" style=\"position: relative; height: 574px; width: 650px;\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/accounts.icharts.net\/icharts\/embed\/MHvQzypB\" width=\"650\" height=\"574\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"chartdiscussion\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 550px; right: 6px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icharts.net\/chartchannel\/emea-cloud-hardware-forecast-cloud-type-2011-2018-revenue-usm_mhvqzypbc\">iCharts<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Credit: IDC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps less surprisingly, strongest growth in EMEA is driven by Western Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the longer term, IDC expects greater adoption of hybrid cloud with benefits for both private and public consumption&rdquo;, said Monhammed Hefny, senior research analyst at IDC EMEA. &ldquo;Hybrid cloud allows customers to retain sensitive data behind a corporate firewall while still taking advantage of cloud-related lower costs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Recent cloudy IDC predictions include a report from David Tapper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/13\/idc-claims-ibm-vendor-choice-us-enterprise-iaas-market\/\">on the state of the IaaS market<\/a> which concluded that IBM was the vendor of choice for the US enterprise market, whilst the analyst house&rsquo;s emphasis on big data, social, mobility and cloud for the future of IT is remarkably similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/aug\/02\/gartner-cloud-makes-it-world-go-round\/\">Gartner&rsquo;s Nexus of Forces<\/a> &ndash; remember analyst firms usually like to disagree with one another, of course.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prognosticators have been at the tea leaves and crystal balls again. This time, an IDC study has found that cloud hardware spending will break $4bn (&pound;2.34bn) across EMEA in 2014.<br \/>\nThe report, entitled EMEA IT Infrastructure Hardware for Public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}