One Third of All IT Infrastructure Expenditure is Going to Cloud
According to a report from IDC, one third of all IT infrastructure money is now spent on the cloud. The Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker says a total of $7.6 billion was spent in the third quarter of 2015. The total cloud expenditure was up 23 percent since this time a year ago. The report does not track direct cloud space allocations but measures server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch spending for cloud environments. In other words, the study shows how much companies are investing in building data centers to support public and private cloud operations.
Dell sold the most cloud infrastructure, with a little over 15 percent share of the total vendor revenue, followed by Dell, Cisco, EMC, and NetApp. Unlike in some areas of high tech, the big players didn't own the whole market. Original Design Manufactures (ODMs) had 29.4 percent of the market share, and 17.5 percent went to smaller vendors grouped together into the “Other” category.
See the report in the Register for more information.
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