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Cloud Infrastructure Market


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The overall cloud infrastructure market is projected to reach USD 209.66 billion by 2022 from USD 101.42 billion in 2016, growing at a CAGR of 12.9% during 2016-2022. Major drivers for market growth are increasing ICT spending and growing trend for adopting big data analytics, growing demand of organizations for agile, scalable, and cost- effective computing, and high penetration of hybrid clouds.

Attractive Opportunities in the Cloud Infrastructure Market

Cloud Infrastructure Market

Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) is expected to hold the largest market during the forecast period

The demand for cloud infrastructure services is witnessing traction across all industries. Since cloud has become one of the key elements of IT infrastructures today, the demand for cloud related services is increasing. Enterprises require scalability and mobility, and thus, industries, such as BFSI, telecommunications & ITES and ITes, and retail adopted cloud at the early stage of cloud computing market evolution. Due to this, these industries are anticipated to account for a major share of the total cloud infrastructure market

The market for services is expected to register the highest CAGR during 2016-2022

Capital expenditure is one of the major reasons for organizations to increase the adoption of colocation services; these services are generally involved in setting up an entire data center space. Colocation allows companies to shift their focus from having capital-intensive data centers to predictable operating expenses are the major factors are leading to higher growth of the services market.

The market for Ethernet switches is expected to register the highest during 2016-2022

Ethernet switches are used to build a network connection between computers. Packet switching is used to receive, process, and forward data. This growth is mainly attributed to the continued infrastructure expansion by cloud service providers. Additionally, growth in this segment is primarily propelled by the expansion of the data center industry.

Cloud Infrastructure Market

North America is expected to account for the largest market size during the forecast period

The large share is mainly attributed to the increasing IT capacity requirements and growing adoption of new data center technologies. The cloud infrastructure market in the US will also grow exponentially, owing to a significant number of organizations opting for cloud services to save their upfront cost of building new data centers for business continuity is the the major factor driving the market.

Key players in the cloud infrastructure market include Hewlett Packard  Enterprise Co (US), Dell Inc. (US), Cisco Systems, Inc. (US), EMC Corporation (US), IBM Corporation (US), Amazon Web Services (US), Salesforce.com (US), Alphabet Inc. (US), NetApp, Inc. (US), Intel Corporation (US), Lenovo group Limited (China), AT&T, Inc. (US), Oracle Corporation (US), Quanta Computer Inc. (Taiwan), Foxconn Technology Group (Taiwan), and Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (US).

Recent Developments

  • Hewlett Packard (HP) Enterprise launched Hyper Converged 380 (HC 380) all-in-one compute, software-defined storage, and intelligent virtualization appliances for mid-sized and remote office/branch office (ROBO) enterprises. Built on HPE ProLiant DL380 server, HC 380 helps organizations to develop cost effective hybrid IT infrastructure.
  • Dell, Inc. (US) partnered with Securonix to provide advanced security analytics for active directory and enterprise applications.
  • Cisco, in association with NetApp, Inc. (an American computer storage and data management company), introduced FlexPod with All Flash FAS (AFF) system, which is a high-speed data storage and data management version of FlexPod converged infrastructure (CI) solution, a technology jointly offered by Cisco and NetApp.

Critical questions the report answers:

  • Where will all these developments take the various end-use industry in the mid to long term?
  • What are the upcoming applications in banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) industry where the adoption rate for advanced solutions and services is expected to increase in near future?
  • How is high cost of developing software and applications for on-premises influencing the deployment and market growth rate?
  • How are the companies addressing the challenge of data transfer and interoperability issues?

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