According to IDC (International Data Corporation), spending
dedicated to cloud amounted to $26.4 billion in 2014, a net increase of over
18% in one year. In the fourth quarter 2014, spending on servers, storage and
switches Ethernet network dedicated to cloud amounted to 30% of all businesses
and organizations infrastructure spending. Three percentage points more than in
the same period in 2013, according to advanced estimates by IDC.
In value terms, it amounts to $ 8 billion. Investment up
14.4% from one year to another. With $ 2.9 billion spending, solutions
dedicated to private cloud showed the strongest progression: + 18.3%. If the
public cloud regroups the bulk of investment with 5 billion in spending, its
progress is limited to 12.3%. In 2014, customers spent almost $ 10 billion in
the private cloud (+ 20.7% on 2013) and 16.5 billion in public infrastructure
(17.5%). For the full year, expenses totaled $ 26.4 billion (18.7%).
Analyst responsible data centers and cloud markets at IDC,
notes Richard Villars accelerating the transition of enterprise data centers to
cloud infrastructure and platform data while the public cloud expansion is the
most important part of expenses. He added that “a key factor of this
acceleration is the development and utilization of new services specific to the
Internet of Things that require agility and scalability levels that only cloud
computing solutions can provide organizations” .
HP remains the leading global supplier of equipment
dedicated to the cloud in which it holds 15.7% of the market value with a
turnover posted 3.7 billion. The Californian manufacturer recorded an annual
increase of 6.3% (despite a decline of 6.6% last quarter). A little further
back, Dell (2.6 billion over the year) tries to keep his distance from Cisco ($
2.1 billion). But for how long? When Dell posted growth of 7.2%, Cisco flies
with an increase of 21.2%. Which pales face the 34.3% growth from EMC that
records for the time, Its sales fell nearly 19% to 1.7 billion. A drastic
decline is explained by the sale of the x86 servers to Lenovo.
From a regional perspective, IDC that extends to 8
geographical areas (Asia Pacific, Japan, Canada, USA, Latin America, Central
and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Middle East-Africa),the United States
remains the largest market for cloud spending. During the fourth quarter, the
area generated 64% of investments followed by Asia-Pacific (17%) and Western
Europe (12%). Despite its third place, the euro area is one that progresses
faster with 30% growth between 2013 and 2014.