Smartphone Market Starts 2024 With 11 Percent Growth in Q1
According to Canalys’ latest research, worldwide smartphone shipments grew 11% year on year in the first quarter of 2024.
According to IDC, worldwide converged systems market revenue increased 14.8% year over year to $4.15 billion during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18).
"Hyperconverged infrastructure demand remains the primary driver of converged systems market growth," said Sebastian Lagana, research manager, Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies at IDC. "As HCI solutions are increasingly capable of operating business-critical workloads while reducing datacenter complexity and promoting affordability, the segment will continue to expand its share of the overall converged systems market.
The certified reference systems & integrated infrastructure market generated $1.6 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter, which represents a decline of 6.4% and 38.6% of total converged systems revenue. Integrated platforms sales declined 8.4%, generating revenue of $619 million. This was 14.9% of the total converged systems market revenue. Sales of hyperconverged systems grew 57.2%, generating $1.9 billion in revenue. This amounted to 46.5% of the total converged systems market.
In the branded view of the hyperconverged systems market, Dell was the largest supplier in 4Q18 with $552.4 million in revenue and a 28.6% share of the market. Nutanix generated $284.9 million, 14.8% of the total HCI market during the quarter and 49% of through sales of systems running Nutanix software. HPE was the third largest branded HCI vendor with $104.9 million in revenue and 5.4% market share.
From the software ownership view of the market, systems running VMware software represented $734.9 million in total fourth quarter vendor revenue or 38.1% of the total market. Systems running Nutanix software represented $576.2 million in fourth quarter vendor revenue or 29.8% of the total market. Both amounts represent sales of all HCI software and hardware regardless of how it was branded.