HPE Maintains Lead in Cloud Infrastructure but Cisco Narrows the Gap

RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 03/21/16 — New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that HPE maintained its leadership of the burgeoning cloud infrastructure equipment market, though Cisco narrowed the gap in the quarter. In a market that is growing at well over 20% per year, both vendors saw strong growth in their cloud infrastructure revenues. The two vendors have been in a closely contested leadership battle for the last eight quarters. Dell and Microsoft were virtually tied for third pla

Cisco Extends Collaboration Leadership as Market Reaches All-Time High

RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 03/08/16 — New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that collaboration market leader Cisco widened the gap with its chief challenger Microsoft, thanks primarily to achieving considerably stronger growth in premise-based solutions where it has a 27% market share. Cisco–s overall collaboration market share is now at a two-year high. For the fourth consecutive quarter total revenues from hosted/cloud solutions exceeded those of premise-based collaboration, but t

AWS Remains Dominant Despite Microsoft and Google Growth Surges

RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 02/03/16 — New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to dominate the cloud infrastructure services market, achieving a worldwide market share of over 31% in the quarter. Microsoft and Google have by far the highest growth rates among the market leaders but are making little impact on AWS, which continues to grow strongly and to increase its market share. IBM meanwhile continues to lead within the private and hybrid servi

2015 Review Shows $110 Billion Cloud Market Growing at 28% Annually

RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 01/07/16 — New data from Synergy Research Group shows that across six key cloud services and infrastructure market segments, operator and vendor revenues for the four quarters ending September reached $110 billion, having grown by 28% on an annualized basis. Public IaaS/PaaS services had the highest growth rate at 51%, followed by private & hybrid cloud infrastructure services at 45%, but all of the segments grew by at least 16%. Spend on infrastructure hardwar

HPE, Cisco and Microsoft Lead in Huge Data Center Infrastructure Market

RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 12/11/15 — New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that HPE, Cisco and Microsoft continue to lead in the three main data center infrastructure market segments — enterprise data center hardware, service provider data center hardware and data center software respectively. Enterprise hardware accounts for over half of the market and in Q3 HPE extended its lead and grew its market share to 24%. For HPE this continues a trend of gradually growing its share of the

Quarterly Cloud Service Revenues Top $6B as Growth Rate Increases

RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 10/26/15 — New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that quarterly revenues from cloud infrastructure services have now passed the $6 billion milestone, with revenues for the last four quarters coming in at well over $21 billion. For the second consecutive quarter the annualized growth rate has increased and is once again above the 50% mark, rewarding the market–s four leading service providers.As the market continues to boom it remains dominated by Amazon We

Public Cloud Now Generating Over $20B in Quarterly Revenues for IT Companies

RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 09/17/15 — New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that public cloud is now generating well over $20 billion in quarterly revenues for IT companies, with $10 billion going to companies supplying public cloud operators with hardware, software and data center facilities and $12 billion being generated from selling IaaS, PaaS and SaaS to enterprise customers. In addition the public cloud is helping to support huge revenue streams from a variety of internet servi

Cisco Strengthens Collaboration Leadership Despite Disruptive Competitors

RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 09/11/15 — New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that collaboration market leader Cisco widened the gap with its chief challenger Microsoft, thanks to achieving considerably stronger growth in premise-based solutions where it has a 25% market share. For the second consecutive quarter total revenues from hosted/cloud solutions exceeded those of premise-based collaboration, but the competitive landscape is very different in this segment with no single vendor

HP Finally Overtakes Cisco in Cloud Infrastructure Equipment Leadership Battle

RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 09/09/15 — New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that HP finally gained leadership of the rapidly growing cloud infrastructure equipment market, having lagged closely behind Cisco through 2013 and 2014. In Q1 the two vendors were tied, but in Q2 HP opened up a lead by achieving much stronger sequential revenue growth. The two leading vendors are each achieving stellar revenue growth in the burgeoning market, but as HP maintained a 13% worldwide market share

The Big Four Cloud Providers Are Leaving the Rest of the Market Behind

RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 07/24/15 — New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that in aggregate Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, IBM and Google control well over half of the worldwide cloud infrastructure service market. Their combined market share rose to 54% in the latest quarter compared with 46% in Q2 2014 and 41% in Q2 2013. While their year-on-year revenue growth rate averaged 84% in Q2, the rest of the market only grew by 33%. Consequently each of the big four cloud provide