{"id":28739,"date":"2017-04-10T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2017\/apr\/10\/idc-global-cloud-it-infrastructure-spend-hit-326-billion-2016\/"},"modified":"2017-04-10T13:30:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:30:56","slug":"idc-global-cloud-it-infrastructure-spend-hit-32-6-billion-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/idc-global-cloud-it-infrastructure-spend-hit-32-6-billion-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"IDC: Global cloud IT infrastructure spend hit $32.6 billion in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/iStock-639481520.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products for cloud IT, including server, storage and Ethernet switch, grew to $32.6 billion in 2016 at a 9.2% year on year climb, according to the latest note from IDC.<\/p>\n<p>The missive, which appears in the company&rsquo;s latest quarterly cloud IT infrastructure tracker, found that cloud IT infrastructure sales, as a share of overall global IT spending, was at 37.2% in Q416, up from 33.4% this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Private cloud infrastructure growth was led by Ethernet switch at 52.7% year on year, ahead of server (9.3% growth) and storage (3.6%). For public cloud, it was a similar story; Ethernet switch (30%) and server (2.4%) grew, while storage declined by 2.1%. Revenue in traditional IT infrastructure &ndash; in other words, not cloud &ndash; decreased 9% year over year in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the leading vendors, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Cisco remain top, albeit with the former two losing market share and revenue year over year, finishing at 17.3% and 14.6% share respectively. Cisco grew 23.1% in revenue and 1.5% market share to 11.3%, while the biggest climbers were Huawei, moving ahead of IBM with a 61.4% revenue growth year on year. IBM, Lenovo and NetApp were tied for fifth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/accounts.icharts.net\/icharts\/embed\/MH\/bwiJM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"710\" height=\"587\"><\/iframe> <a href=\"http:\/\/chartchannel.icharts.net\/chartchannel\/worldwide-cloud-it-infrastructure-top-5-cloud-vendors-2016-q3-vs-2015-q3-shares-based-0\">iCharts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Growth slowed to single digits in 2016 in the cloud infrastructure market as hyperscale cloud data centre growth continued its pause,&rdquo; said Kuba Stolarski, IDC research director for computing platforms in a statement. &ldquo;Network upgrades continue to be the focus of public cloud deployments, as network bandwidth has become by far the largest bottleneck in cloud data centres.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After some delays for a few hyperscalers, data centre buildouts and refresh are expected to accelerate throughout 2017, built on newer generation hardware, primarily using Intel&rsquo;s Skylake architecture,&rdquo; Stolarski added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products for cloud IT, including server, storage and Ethernet switch, grew to $32.6 billion in 2016 at a 9.2% year on year climb, according to the latest note from IDC.<br \/>\nThe missive, which appears in the compa&#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-28739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28739","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=28739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28740,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28739\/revisions\/28740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}