According to IDC, HPE Rules the Cloud in 2015

The global cloud infrastructure market saw a 22% growth year after year, to hit a $29 billion value in 2015. According to the IDC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the leading provider in the market, representing 15.8% overall market share. Dell, and Cisco follow close behind, representing 10.2, and 9.7% and were, “Jointly given the silver medal” said IDC, “because of how close their propositions are”.

Interestingly, IBM was the only cloud vendor that is trailing behind.

“All leading firms saw their revenues increase year over year, and all apart from IBM saw that growth in double digits. Cisco (35.5% revenue growth) saw greatest expansion, ahead of Dell (26.7%), EMC (19.7%) and HPE (17.2%). Quarterly revenues for 4Q15 were at $8.2bn, up 15% from 4Q14’s $7.1bn.”

Cloudcomputing-news.net reported that, In terms of specific regions, cloud infrastructure vendors saw greatest success in Japan, with sales rising 50% year over year in 4Q15. Asia Pacific – excluding Japan – was similarly popular (38.7%), followed by Western Europe (30.5%), Canada (23.5%) and the United States, with its mature and saturated market, trailing although showing 6.6% revenue growth.

Another added twist, it seems the cloud market is profiting in public cloud, suggesting an increase in acceptance of the model for use in business.

“The cloud IT infrastructure market continues to see strong double-digit growth with faster gains coming from public cloud infrastructure demand,” said Kuba Stolarski, IDC research director for computing platforms. “While the ice was broken a long time ago for public cloud services, the continued evolution of the enterprise IT customer means that public cloud acceptance and adoption will continue on a steady pace into the next decade.”

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Source: cloudcomputing-news.net