Cisco, HP, and IBM find hidden fortune in the cloud

March 17, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

I spend a fair bit of time pushing back on the lack of cloud progress from larger enterprise providers such as IBM, Cisco Systems, and Hewlett-Packard. However, could these companies actually be successful in the cloud through the infrastructure business only? If so, can they keep it up? The latest figures from Synergy Research state that Cisco and HP are the leaders in the cloud infrastructure equipment market.

Cisco continues to lead in the public cloud infrastructure space, selling networking equipment to those who build public and private clouds. Cisco is making major bank on the networking segment of the cloud market. Many predicted that cloud providers and enterprises would prefer lower-cost networking equipment, but that does not seem to be the case…

At the same time, HP leads in private cloud, according to the research. HP’s dominance is down to its position in cloud servers, both public and private. In the last quarter alone, it earned $13 billion from its cloud hardware and software…

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