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According to the new IDC study, the worldwide converged systems market revenues increased 4.6% year over year to $2.67 billion during the first quarter of 2017 (1Q17). The market consumed 1.48 exabytes of new storage capacity during the quarter, which was up only 7.1% compared to the same period a year ago.
IDC's converged systems market view offers four segments: integrated infrastructure, certified reference systems, integrated platforms, and hyperconverged systems. Integrated infrastructure and certified reference systems are pre-integrated, vendor-certified systems containing server hardware, disk storage systems, networking equipment, and basic element/systems management software.
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. Hyperconverged systems collapse core storage and compute functionality into a single, highly virtualized solution.
A key characteristic of hyperconverged systems that differentiate these solutions from other integrated systems is their scale-out architecture and their ability to provide all compute and storage functions through the same x86 server-based resources.
During the first quarter of 2017, the combined integrated infrastructure and certified reference systems market generated revenues of $1.37 billion, which represented a year-over-year decrease of 3.3% and 51.3% of the total market. Dell Inc. was the largest supplier of this combined market segment with $647.8 million in sales, or 47.2% share of the market segment.
Top 3 Vendors, Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure and Certified Reference Systems, 1Q17(Revenues in Millions) | |||||
Vendor | 1Q17 Revenue | 1Q17 Market Share | 1Q16 Revenue | 1Q16 Market Share | 1Q17 /1Q16 Revenue Growth |
1. Dell | $647.8 | 47.2% | $667.3 | 47.0% | -2.9% |
2. Cisco/NetApp | $395.6 | 28.8% | $313.7 | 22.1% | 26.1% |
3. HPE | $206.2 | 15.0% | $291.1 | 20.5% | -29.2% |
All Others | $122.8 | 9.0% | $146.9 | 10.4% | -16.4% |
Total | $1,372.5 | 100% | 1,419.1 | 100% | -3.3% |
Source: IDC |
Integrated Platform sales declined 13.3% year over year during the first quarter of 2017, generating $635.9 million worth of sales. This amounted to 23.8% of the total market revenue. Oracle was the top-ranked supplier of Integrated Platforms during the quarter, generating revenues of $348.7 million and capturing a 54.8% share of the market segment.
Top 3 Vendors, Worldwide Integrated Platforms, 1Q17 (Revenues in Millions) | |||||
Vendor | 1Q17 Revenue | 1Q17 Market Share | 1Q16 Revenue | 1Q17 Market Share | 1Q17 /1Q16 Revenue Growth |
1. Oracle | $348.7 | 54.8% | $379.6 | 51.8% | -8.1% |
2. HPE | $61.7 | 9.7% | $65.8 | 9.0% | -6.2% |
T3 IBM | $19.9 | 3.1% | $26.6 | 3.6% | -25.1% |
T3 Hitachi | $19.6 | 3.1% | $28.0 | 3.8% | -30.1% |
Others | $185.9 | 29.2% | $233.1 | 31.3% | -20.2% |
Total | $635.9 | 100% | $733.1 | 100% | -13.3% |
Source: IDC |
Hyperconverged sales grew 64.7% year over year during the first quarter of 2017, generating $665.1 million worth of sales. This amounted to 24.9% of the total market value.