Synergy Research stories

Despite Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and Tencent all substantially outpacing the overall market, Amazon is still clearly in front.

Spending in the market is on the rise with the usual suspects like Dell EMC, Microsoft, HPE, Huawei, and Cisco at the top.

The insatiable appetite for data around the world has seen the data centre giants scrambling with huge investments to keep up.

Last year saw almost manic growth in revenue for cloud providers as businesses continue to seek the benefits the services can provide.

Global demand for data surge fuels a boom in hyperscale data centres, with 132 new facilities set to bolster the current 430, a rise led by Amazon and Google.

While still maintaining a significant lead, Cisco finished 2018 with a slightly smaller piece of the pie in the enterprise IT infrastructure market.

The top nine vendors in the wide cloud market ecosystem are responsible for well over half of all the revenues.

The old proverb 'you have to spend money to make money' could never be truer than in the hyperscale data centre industry.

While the market is seeing strong growth, it's coming at the expense of small-to-medium sized cloud operators.

Dell EMC, Microsoft, HPE, and Cisco (among others) are all profiting from a burgeoning market that has no signs of slowing.

In the first half of this year more than US$53b has been spent on hyperscale data centre development, with the bulk of that from just 5 companies.

Public cloud provider spending on data center infrastructure surged forward in 2018's first quarter, the highest growth figure seen in nine quarters.

Spending on cloud infrastructure services rose by 51% in Q1 2018, surpassing growth rates of the previous five quarters, according to Synergy Research data.

New data from Synergy Research Group has solidified the world's most dominant cloud providers as Amazon (AWS), Microsoft, Google – and Alibaba.

Just 20 metro areas, including Tokyo, London, and New York, generate 59% of global colocation revenues, with retail accounting for 72% of Q3 earnings.

Entering 2018, there are also four additional major deals that have been agreed to but not yet closed that are worth over $2.6 billion.

Amazon remains 'in a league of its own' as a cloud provider, despite the rapid growth of key competitors Microsoft, Google and Alibaba.

Spend on cloud data center technology has risen dramatically according to new data from Synergy Research Group, while on-prem equipment spend plunges.

The top four hyperscale players continue to pull away from the chasing pack in the cloud infrastructure services market - with two doubling revenue.

Hyperscale operators are snapping up increasing amounts of the fast growing cloud markets - and its changing the data center vendor landscape.