The cloud IT arms race is going to the no-name infrastructure providers
April 17, 2015
Enterprise hardware giants like to pitch themselves as enablers of the cloud via their data center gear. But the race to be a cloud arms dealer is going to the no-name hardware providers.
According to IDC, cloud IT infrastructure spending, which includes storage, server, and networking, was up 14 percent in the fourth quarter to $8 billion. About 30 percent of all IT infrastructure spending goes to the cloud.
Private cloud infrastructure spending was up 18.3 percent in the fourth quarter to $2.9 billion. Public cloud infrastructure spending in the fourth quarter was $5 billion, up 12.3 percent from a year ago.
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