Cisco leads Cloud networking infrastructure market with 50% share

The Cloud equipment market for the
first half of 2011 exceeded $17 billion in sales. The fastest growing segment
includes private Cloud platforms, which is growing at over 30 percent annual
growth.

The growth will continue as large
enterprises realize the economies of scale and other cost benefits associated
with the virtualization of their data centers.

Cisco is the dominant networking
infrastructure supplier for cloud deployments with a market share approaching
50 percent.

For Virtualized Computing systems,
HP and IBM represent over 50 percent market share combined. Further, Dell,
NetApp and HP comprise 50 percent of the Storage opportunity.

Public Cloud platforms represent the
biggest share of cloud equipment spending, representing 56 percent in the first
half of 2011.

Public Cloud deployments could
potentially experience exponential growth in the coming years as IaaS, PaaS,
and SaaS gain wider usage by both consumers and businesses.

“Cloud unleashes the power of
utility computing that has never been seen before and it becomes a game changer
when matched with advanced communications and applications,” said Jeremy
Duke, founder and chief analyst, Synergy Research Group.

“From small start ups being
able to access massive scale computing facilities to new cloud-based consumer
services, cloud will continue to open up a wealth of opportunities for
innovation.”

By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com