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According to the IDC WW Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker, IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch) for public and private cloud in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) grew by 37.4 % on year to reach EUR1.4 billion (US$1.56 billion) in revenues in the second quarter of 2016.
The cloud-related share of total EMEA infrastructure revenues from servers, disk storage, and Ethernet switches grew 7pp compared to last year to exceed 22.5% in the second quarter. In terms of storage capacity, cloud represented around 23.8 % of total EMEA capacity in the second quarter, with a 4.6 % decline over the same period a year before. Looking at the market in euros, EMEA reported strong on-year user value growth (34.2%) in the second quarter in public and private cloud across servers, storage, and switches.
"IDC expects this market to reach a value of EUR10.5 billion by 2020 (from a five year forecast), or 36.5 % of the total market expenditure," said Kamil Gregor, research analyst, European Infrastructure group, at IDC. "Fueled by increasing maturity and adoption rates of many new cloud-dependent technologies, such as the Internet of Things, cloud continues to represent an area of tremendous growth for the European infrastructure sector."
For the scope of this tracker, IDC has tracked the following vendors: Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Lenovo, NetApp, Oracle, the major ODM vendors, and others.
Regional highlights
"In the first proper post-Brexit quarter, we still see no justification for significant adjustments of our cloud forecast in the region," said Gregor. "Cloud infrastructure vendors reported a brief disruption of their operations immediately after the referendum, but since then, business seems to have continued as usual. Enterprises may reevaluate where their cloud data is located if Brexit causes a mismatch of regulatory rules in the UK and the rest of the region in the long-term future.
"Multicloud continues to be a very successful deployment model throughout the region. IDC expects over 70% of Western European enterprises to adopt some form of multicloud by the end of next year. Regulatory differences between EU countries have been a major driver of multicloud adoption. They will be at least partially removed by the EU General Data Protection Regulation, which enters into effect in May 2018, although we do not expect this to significantly slow multicloud adoption in Western Europe."
Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMA) cloud infrastructure revenues grew by 18.8% on year to EUR198.04 million in the second quarter, benefitting from increased investments in both public and private cloud. The resumption of investments in IT infrastructure on the back of stabilization of the geopolitical situation surrounding Russia contributed to strong cloud infrastructure revenue growth in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) sub-region, breaking a year long losing streak.
"Private cloud deployments drove growth as organizations that are consolidating their IT infrastructure appreciate the ease of integration with existing systems as well as ease of procurement over traditional IT infrastructure," said Jiri Helebrand, research manager, Systems and Infrastructure Solutions, IDC CEMA.
Cloud infrastructure spending in the CEMA region is estimated to be 17% of the total addressable server, storage, and networking hardware market, with public cloud accounting for about 46% of this share.
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IDC: EMEA Cloud IT infrastructure value, 2Q16 (EUR$b) |
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Deployment model |
2Q16 value |
2Q16 market share |
2Q15 value |
2Q15 market share |
Y/Y |
|
Private cloud (on- and off-premise) |
0.8 |
13% |
0.6 |
9% |
39.2% |
|
Public cloud |
0.6 |
9% |
0.5 |
7% |
34.3% |
|
Traditional IT |
5.1 |
78% |
5.6 |
84% |
(9.9%) |
|
Total |
6.5 |
100% |
6.7 |
100% |
(2.5%) |
Source: IDC, compiled by Digitimes, October 2016
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