![](\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/public_cloud_idc.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
International Data Corporation (IDC) has said that public cloud providers are reshaping the IT market; being responsible for a third of all the servers, data storage, and Ethernet switching equipment sales.<\/p>\n
As per the IDC research, public cloud companies crossed a milestone during Q2\/2017, now accounting for just over a third (33.5%) of worldwide IT infrastructure sales, an increase of 34.1% y\/y. The revenue totaled $8.7 billion.<\/p>\n
During Q2\/2017, the Private cloud generated $3.7 billion in sales, an increase of almost 10% y\/y. Together the public and private cloud IT infrastructure sales have nearly tripled in the last four years, noted IDC.<\/p>\n
Demand decreased 3.8% y\/y in Q2\/2017, representing the traditional or non-cloud customers. Yet the segment remains an important one, generating $13.6 billion in Q2 and representing more than half (52.4%) of the market.<\/p>\n
Demand for storage is high, accounting for over a third of public cloud revenues in Q2, an increase of 30.4% y\/y. Sales of both Ethernet switches and servers increased 26.8% and 24.6%, respectively.<\/p>\n
Research director at IDC’s Computing Platforms practice Kuba Stolarski said that Amazon has been a driving force behind the increase in the spending. Its rivals, however, are just sitting still.<\/p>\n
Stolarski commented about them, saying “it is important to remember that many of the other hyperscalers – Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu – are preparing for their own expansions and Skylake\/Purley refreshes of their infrastructure.” Skylake and Purley are newer processor architectures for high-performance servers from chipmaking giant Intel that cloud providers can use to speed up their workloads.<\/p>\n
Dell is slightly in the lead with 11.8% of the market on cloud IT infrastructure sales of over $1.4 billion and HPE is right behind 11.1% share of the market and over $1.3 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n
Cisco is at the third position, with just over a $1 billion in sales and 8.2% of the market. Huawei, NetApp and Inspur make into the top five vendors. Collectively, ODMs (original design manufacturers) that sell directly to data centre customers beat all of them, with $5.4 billion in sales during Q2\/2017 and 44% of the market.<\/p>\n
Are you surprised at the IDC results? Share your thoughts in the comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" International Data Corporation (IDC) has said that public cloud providers are reshaping the IT market; being responsible for a third of all the servers, data storage, and Ethernet switching equipment sales.
\nAs per the IDC research, public cloud co…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32033","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32056,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32033\/revisions\/32056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}