Dynamics within the Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure Spending



We move from a trend to steadily mature technology that brings peace in minds within developer community and within businesses of all sizes.

This momentum is exciting as many are now aware of the stakes of flexibility, agility, scalability, security, costs, performance and productivity related to the Cloud computing.  
 
According to IDC, vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew 21.9% year over year to $29.0 billion in 2015.

IDC also reveals that, Compared to overall IT infrastructure spending, the share of cloud IT infrastructure sales climbed to 32.2% in 4Q15, up from 28.6% a year ago.
Private cloud growth was led by Ethernet switch with 19.6% growth. In public cloud, Ethernet switch led the way with 56.9% year-on-year growth, while public cloud revenue from server grew 28.9% year on year in 4Q15. For the full year, server revenue in private cloud grew by 23.0% year on year, while Ethernet switch revenue in public cloud grew by 36.6% during the same period. 

From a regional perspective, vendor revenue from cloud IT infrastructure sales grew fastest in Japan at 50.0% year over year in 4Q15, followed by Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) at 38.7%, Western Europe at 30.5%, Canada at 23.5%, and the United States at 6.6%. Central and Eastern Europe declined 9.3% year over year as the region continues to go through political and economic turmoil, which impacts overall IT spending. 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise remains the top vendor before respectively Dell, Cisco, EMC and IBM.