Synergy Research stories
Global collaboration market hits record high in Q4 with revenues reaching almost $10bn, reports Synergy Research Group. Cisco and Microsoft lead the market.
New data from Synergy Research Group has solidified the world's most dominant cloud providers as Amazon (AWS), Microsoft, Google – and Alibaba.
Just 20 metro areas, including Tokyo, London, and New York, generate 59% of global colocation revenues, with retail accounting for 72% of Q3 earnings.
Entering 2018, there are also four additional major deals that have been agreed to but not yet closed that are worth over $2.6 billion.
Synergy reports the global cloud market soared to USD $180 billion in 2017, marking a 24% annual uptick, with IaaS and PaaS leading at 47% growth.
Local companies are dominating China's flourishing data center and cloud markets - and will likely have an increasing impact on countries beyond China.
Amazon remains 'in a league of its own' as a cloud provider, despite the rapid growth of key competitors Microsoft, Google and Alibaba.
Spend on cloud data center technology has risen dramatically according to new data from Synergy Research Group, while on-prem equipment spend plunges.
The top four hyperscale players continue to pull away from the chasing pack in the cloud infrastructure services market - with two doubling revenue.
Hyperscale operators are snapping up increasing amounts of the fast growing cloud markets - and its changing the data center vendor landscape.
Microsoft, Google and IBM may have posted 80%-plus growth, but they're still a long way from challenging market leader AWS.
Dell's merger with EMC has seen it jump to the top of the cloud infrastructure market to share a three way tie with HPE and Cisco.
Enterprise SaaS has recorded growth of 32% year on year in Q4 2016, with Microsoft leading the charge - but Google and Oracle snapping at its heels.
Microsoft, Google and IBM are slowly gaining on AWS in the public cloud services market, as the IaaS and PaaS infrastructure service market top US$7b.
Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT extended their colocation leadership last year, growing three times as much as the overall market.
Cloud service providers are reaping the benefits of their investments as cloud services spend outstrips cloud hardware and software spend.
Cisco has the lion's share of enterprise infrastructure spend, controlling one-third of the overall market – but HPE is tops for data center servers.
The number hyperscale data centers globally has surged past the 300 mark following a flurry of end of year data center openings.
Amazon is continuing to dominate the public IaaS and PaaS space, as quarterly cloud infrastructure service revenues top US$8 billion.
Global reach is helping Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google stretch their lead in the cloud market. So who else is winning in the market?.
