Data Center Enterprise Spending Nudged Downwards In 2016
Cisco maintains a big lead.
New data from Synergy Research Group shows that across seven key enterprise infrastructure segments, vendor revenues for the last four quarters declined by 1% on an annualized basis. Aggregate revenues for the last four quarters reached $88 billion, with revenue in each of the last twelve quarters typically in the $20-23 billion range. Data center servers comprise the largest segment of the market though revenues here declined by almost 5% in 2016. Switches & routers are the second-largest segment and they experienced growth of 1%. WLAN grew the most while the enterprise voice and telepresence markets continued to be challenged by aggressive price competition and market disruption.