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IDC: Hyperconverged system sales up almost 70 per cent in Q1

Hyperconverged systems grew more than 12 times faster than the overall converged systems market

The global converged systems market continues to grow, with revenues up 4.6 per cent YoY in Q1'17 to $2.7 billion, says IDC. The market's storage consumption was up a comparatively low amount: 1.48 exabytes of new capacity, up 7.1 per cent. IDC says that converged systems have become an important source of innovation and growth for the data centre infrastructure market.

IDC divides the market into four segments: integrated infrastructure, certified reference systems, integrated platforms, and hyperconverged systems.

Integrated infrastructure and certified reference systems are pre-integrated, vendor-certified systems. They contain server hardware, disk storage systems, networking equipment and basic element/systems management software. In Q1, this combined market sector generated $1.4 billion in revenues (down 3.3 per cent): 51.3 per cent of the total converged systems market. Dell, at $647.8 million in sales (47.2 per cent share), was the segment's largest supplier, followed by Cisco ($395.6 million, 28.8 per cent share) and HPE ($206.2 million, 15 per cent share). Revenues of Dell, HPE and ‘All Others' fell, while Cisco's rose more than 25 per cent.

Integrated platforms are integrated systems that are sold with additional pre-integrated packaged software and customised system engineering. Q1 sales were down 13.3 per cent YoY, to $635.9 million: 23.8 per cent of total market revenue. Oracle led the segment with a 54.8 per cent share, followed by HPE (9.7 per cent) and IBM (3.1 per cent).

Hyperconverged systems integrate core storage and compute functionality into a single, virtualized solution. A key characteristic that differentiates these solutions from other integrated systems is their scale-out architecture and ability to provide all compute and storage functions through the same x86 server-based resources. Sales were up 64.7 per cent ($665.1 million: 24.9% of the total market).

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IDC: Hyperconverged system sales up almost 70 per cent in Q1

Hyperconverged systems grew more than 12 times faster than the overall converged systems market

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