HP and Dell Lead Cloud Infrastructure Market
April 21, 2015
Grazed from Datamation. Author: Pedro Hernandez.
Cloud computing’s ever-expanding footprint is good news for IT vendors, particularly HP and Dell. In the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14), cloud data center operators snapped up $8.0 billion worth of servers, disk storage and Ethernet switching equipment worldwide, according to IT market research firm IDC, a 14.4 percent year-over-year improvement.
In total, the cloud represented 30 percent of all IT infrastructure spending in 4Q14, compared to 27 percent during the same year-ago period. Private clouds are growing more popular among enterprises, IDC’s data indicates. Spending in the segment reached $2.9 billion, an 18.3 percent year-over-year increase. Public clouds accounted for $5 billion in IT revenues, a 12.3 percent gain…
Richard Villars, VP of Datacenter and Cloud research at IDC, noted that the forecast for corporate data centers is looking increasingly cloudier…
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