VCE Tops WW Integrated Infrastructure – IDC

According to the International Data Corporation, revenue for the worldwide integrated infrastructure and platforms market increased 45.6% year over year to nearly $7.6 billion during calendar year 2013.

The market generated 2.4EBs of new storage capacity shipments during the year, which was up 78.6% compared to 2012.

For the first time, IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Integrated Infrastructure and Platform Tracker includes the value of software licenses attributable to applications, application development and deployment software, and system infrastructure software deployed on these systems. The addition of this software to the tracker gives stakeholders a complete view of a market.

“Integrated systems have been one of the most important developments in the evolution of the enterprise datacenter,” said Jed Scaramella, research director, enterprise servers. “The strong growth in the market is a testament to customers’ realization of the value proposition and benefits these systems deliver. IDC expects the market to continue on its growth trajectory in 2014.”

“The market’s continued double-digit growth rate comes at a time when the value of the general infrastructure market remains relatively sluggish,” said Eric Sheppard, research director, storage. “This can largely be attributed to the clear advantages integrated systems offer over general infrastructure in the form of faster time to deployment, consolidated management, reduced downtime, and improved utilization rates.“

Integrated Platforms vs. Integrated Infrastructure
IDC distinguishes between two market segments: Integrated Platforms and Integrated Infrastructure.

• 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.
• Integrated infrastructure systems are designed for general-purpose, distributed workloads that are likely to have differing performance profiles. While integrated infrastructure is similar to integrated platforms in that it will leverage the same infrastructure building blocks, it is not optimized for a specific workload.

The Integrated Platforms market generated nearly $3.6 billion in sales during 2013, which represented a 12.2% year-over-year growth rate and 47.3% of the total market value. Oracle was the largest supplier of Integrated Platform Systems with $1.4 billion in sales, or 39.1% share of the market segment.
                                                                               
   Top 3 Vendors, WW Integrated Platforms, 2013, Revenue in Million

  (Source: IDC Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure & Platforms Tracker, April 29, 2014)
 
Integrated Infrastructure sales grew 98.7% year over year during 2013 on nearly $4.0 billion worth of sales. This amounted to 52.7% of the total market value. VCE was the top-ranked supplier of Integrated Infrastructure in 2013, generating revenues of $979.3 million and capturing a 24.6% share of the market segment.    

                                                                      
  Top 3 Vendors, WW Integrated Infrastructure, 2013, Revenues in Million)

(Source: IDC Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure & Platforms Tracker, April 29, 2014)                                                    

Taxonomy Notes: IDC defines integrated infrastructure and platforms as pre-integrated, vendor-certified systems containing server hardware, disk storage systems, networking equipment, and basic element/systems management software. Systems not sold with all four of these components are not counted within this tracker. Specific to management software, IDC includes embedded or integrated management and control software optimized for the auto discovery, provisioning and pooling of physical and virtual compute, storage and networking resources shipped as part of the core, standard integrated system.