Third Quarter Revenue for Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure & Platforms Increased 28.1% Year Over Year to $2.3 Billion, Acc...
19 December 2014 - 12:00PM
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According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide
Quarterly Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker, the
worldwide integrated infrastructure and platforms market increased
revenue 28.1% year over year to $2.3 billion during the third
quarter of 2014 (3Q14). The market generated more than 898
petabytes of new storage capacity shipments during the quarter,
which was up 46.6% compared to same period a year ago.
"These results speak to the ability of integrated systems to
address core data center infrastructure challenges," Eric Sheppard,
Research Director, Storage. "Those that are deploying integrated
systems tell IDC of real gains in the form of increased
productivity, reduced downtime, and improved utilization
rates."
"While core IT hardware markets exhibited modest growth in 2014,
the integrated systems market is experiencing significant growth,"
said Jed Scaramella, Research Director, Enterprise Servers. "In the
past year IT vendors have invested heavily in product portfolios
and go-to-market efforts for integrated systems, resulting in
increased adoption among customer IT environments."
Integrated Platforms vs. Integrated Infrastructure
IDC distinguishes between two market segments: Integrated
Platforms and Integrated Infrastructure. Integrated Platforms are
integrated systems that are sold with additional pre-integrated
packaged software and customized system engineering optimized to
enable such functions as application development software,
databases, testing, and integration tools. Integrated
Infrastructure systems are designed for general-purpose,
distributed workloads that are likely to have differing performance
profiles. While integrated infrastructure is similar to integrated
platforms in that it will leverage the same infrastructure building
blocks, it is not optimized for a specific workload.
During the third quarter of 2014, the Integrated Platforms
market generated more than $763 million in sales, which represented
a 7% year-over-year growth rate and 33.3% of the total market
value. Oracle was the largest supplier of Integrated Platform
Systems with $310 million in sales, or 40.7% share of the market
segment.
Top 3 Vendors, Worldwide Integrated Platforms, 3Q2014
(Revenues are in Millions)
Vendor
3Q2014Revenue
3Q2014MarketShare
3Q2013Revenue
3Q2013MarketShare
3Q14/3Q13RevenueGrowth
1. Oracle $ 310.4 40.7 % $ 289.8 40.6 %
7.1 % 2. IBM $ 84.6 11.1 % $ 103.2
14.5 % -18.0 % 3. HP $ 39.3 5.1 %
$ 10.2 1.4 % 285.0 % All Others $ 328.9
43.1 % $ 310.0 43.5 % 6.1 %
Total
Factory Value $ 763.2 100
% $ 713.1 100 %
7.0 %
Source: IDC Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure &
Platforms Tracker, December 18, 2014
Integrated Infrastructure sales grew 42.1% year over year during
the third quarter of 2014, generating $1.5 billion worth of sales.
This amounted to 66.7% of the total market value. VCE was the
top-ranked supplier of Integrated Infrastructure during the
quarter, generating revenues of $390.4 million and capturing a
25.5% share of the market segment.
Top 3 Vendors, Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure,
3Q2014 (Revenues are in Millions)
Vendor
3Q2014Revenue
3Q2014MarketShare
3Q2013Revenue
3Q2013MarketShare
3Q14/3Q13RevenueGrowth
1. VCE $ 390.4 25.5 % $ 267.9 24.9 %
45.7 % 2. Cisco/NetApp $ 305.3 20.0 % $
231.0 21.5 % 32.2 % 3. HP $ 274.9 18.0
% $ 73.6 6.8 % 273.3 % All Others $
557.5 36.5 % $ 502.7 46.7 % 10.9 %
Total Factory Value $ 1,528.2
100 % $ 1,075.2
100 % 42.1 %
Source: IDC Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure &
Platforms Tracker, December 18, 2014
In addition to the two tables above, interactive graphics
showing 3Q14 and 3Q13 market share for the top three vendors are
available for both the integrated platforms market and the
integrated infrastructure market. Instructions on how to embed
these graphics into online news articles and social media can be
found by viewing this press release on IDC.com.
Taxonomy Notes:
IDC defines integrated infrastructure and platforms as
pre-integrated, vendor-certified systems containing server
hardware, disk storage systems, networking equipment, and basic
element/systems management software. Systems not sold with all four
of these components are not counted within this tracker. Specific
to management software, IDC includes embedded or integrated
management and control software optimized for the auto discovery,
provisioning and pooling of physical and virtual compute, storage
and networking resources shipped as part of the core, standard
integrated system.
For more information about IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Integrated
Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker, please contact Lidice
Fernandez at 305-351-3057 or lfernandez@idc.com.
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