IDC Finds Cloud IT Infrastructure Accounted for Nearly One Third of Worldwide Server, Disk Storage, & Ethernet Switch Spendin...
December 19 2014 - 8:22PM
Business Wire
International Data Corporation (IDC) today announced the launch
of the Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker. New
data for the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14) shows that almost a third
of combined worldwide server, disk storage, and ethernet switch
infrastructure spending in the quarter came from cloud deployments.
Total cloud infrastructure revenue for the quarter grew 16% year
over year to $6.5 billion. Public cloud infrastructure accounted
for nearly half of total cloud infrastructure revenue and is
growing faster at 18% compared to one year ago.
"Public and private clouds represent the 'compute factories' and
'digital content depots' of the 3rd Platform era," noted Richard
Villars, Vice President, Datacenter and Cloud research at IDC.
"Whether internally owned or 'rented' from a service provider,
cloud environments are strategic assets that organizations of all
types must rely upon to quickly introduce new services of
unprecedented scale, speed, and scope. Their effective use will
garner first-mover advantage to any organization in a
hyper-competitive market."
IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker is
designed to provide clients with a better understanding of what
portion of the server, disk storage systems, and networking
hardware markets are being deployed in cloud environments. This
tracker will break out vendors' revenue by the hardware technology
market into public and private cloud environments for historical
data and also provide a five-year forecast by the technology
market.
"This new Tracker will greatly help our clients to better
navigate and perform competitive analysis for the cloud
environment," said Lidice Fernandez, Program Vice President of
Worldwide Tracker Research at IDC. "This is the best way IDC can
help vendors target their go-to-market efforts for the 3rd Platform
marketplace era."
Taxonomy Notes:
IDC defines cloud services more formally through a checklist of
key attributes that an offering must manifest to end users of the
service. Public cloud services are shared among unrelated
enterprises and consumers; open to a largely unrestricted universe
of potential users; and designed for a market, not a single
enterprise. The public cloud market includes variety of services
designed to extend or, in some cases, replace IT infrastructure
deployed in corporate datacenters. It also includes content
services delivered by a group of suppliers IDC calls Value Added
Content Providers (VACP). Private cloud services are shared within
a single enterprise or an extended enterprise with restrictions on
access and level of resource dedication and defined/controlled by
the enterprise (and beyond the control available in public cloud
offerings); can be onsite or offsite; and can be managed by a
third-party or in-house staff. In private cloud that is managed by
in-house staff, "vendors (cloud service providers)" are equivalent
to the IT departments/shared service departments within
enterprises/groups. In this utilization model, where standardized
services are jointly used within the enterprise/group, business
departments, offices, and employees are the "service users."
For more information about IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT
Infrastructure Tracker, please contact Lidice Fernandez at
305-351-3057 or lfernandez@idc.com.
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Villars, 508-935-4599rvillars@idc.comorMichael Shirer,
508-935-4200press@idc.com