Report: Microsoft And HP Lead In Data Center Infrastructure Market
The market has reached $114 billion in spending.
New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that over the last four quarters spending on data center infrastructure reached $114 billion, with software now accounting for 23% of the total. Microsoft and VMware dominate the software segments of the market, in aggregate accounting for almost 90% of software revenues. There is a considerably broader range of large vendors in the hardware side of the market, where the top four companies in aggregate account for 54% of revenues. HP has a strong lead in data center hardware, followed by Cisco, Dell and IBM. Other leading data center vendors include EMC, Lenovo, NetApp, Oracle, Fujitsu and Hitachi.
Data center infrastructure includes servers, server OS, storage, networking, network security and virtualization applications. Total spend on data center over the four-quarter period grew by 6% relative to the previous four quarters, with software growing by 14% and hardware growing by 4%. Among the individual segments some of the highest growth was seen in virtualization applications, server OS, blade servers and storage applications.