HPE edging out Cisco in cloud infrastructure space, argues research
June 8, 2016
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Cisco continue to battle it out for supremacy in the cloud infrastructure market with HPE having the slight advantage, according to the latest note from Synergy Research. The note, which assesses the most recent Q1 data, sees Cisco just ahead of HPE and Dell in public cloud hardware, but HPE more dominant in the private cloud hardware space, capturing more than 20% of the overall market.
In cloud software, Microsoft has more than 40% share and is streets ahead of nearest competitor VMware, but given the relatively nascent size of the market sees the Redmond giant in third place for the overall poll. Even though both HPE and Cisco gained market share in the previous quarter, HPE slightly widened its advantage, according to Synergy…
Overall, the global cloud infrastructure market grew by 13% in Q1 – a drop-off from the usual 20% run rate which the analyst house describes as a ‘typically soft’ quarter following the usual Q4 peak…
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