Cisco, HP Lead Cloud Infrastructure Market

March 12, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Dan Kobialka.

New Synergy Research Group data showed that Cisco Systems (CSCO) and HP (HPQ) maintained their status as cloud infrastructure market leaders during the fourth quarter of 2014. Together, Cisco and HP controlled 27 percent of the cloud infrastructure market. Synergy found that Cisco had a clear lead in public cloud infrastructure, while HP was the leader in private cloud.

However, the market intelligence firm also noted that both vendors saw their share of the total cloud market fall between the third and fourth quarters. Microsoft (MSFT) ranked third among cloud infrastructure providers, followed by Dell (DELL). IBM (IBM), meanwhile, fell from third to fifth; Synergy attributed the drop to Big Blue’s sale of its x86 server product line to Lenovo on Oct. 1…

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