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Infrastructure and platforms revenue increases
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker, the worldwide integrated infrastructure and platforms market increased revenue 38.5% year over year to $1.95 billion during the fi rst quarter of 2014 (1Q14). The market generated 653.8 petabytes of new storage capacity shipments during the quarter, which was up 72.3% compared to the same period a year ago.
“As the market moves to the 3rd Platform, IT customers are seeking to leverage cloud, social, mobile, and big data in their businesses. Transforming an IT environment requires a new approach to systems,”
HPC server market
WORLDWIDE FACTORY revenue for the high performance computing (HPC) technical server market decreased -9.6% in the fi rst quarter of 2014 (1Q14) to $2.3 billion, down from $2.5 billion in the same period of 2013, according to the IDC Worldwide High-Performance Technical Server QView. Unit shipments were relatively steady in the quarter, growing 0.4% year over year on shipments of 33,577 units.
Revenues in the high-end Supercomputers segment (HPC systems sold for $500,000 and up) declined to $580 million, down -32.7% year over year. IDC forecasts that the Supercomputers segment will see modest growth through the rest of 2014, but will expand at a healthy compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.2% through 2018. Following a recovery year in 2013, the lower half of the HPC market showed signs of, continued improvement in the Divisional,
Departmental, and Workgroup segments. The Divisional segment (HPC systems priced from $250,000 to $499,000) declined -2.6% year over year, while revenues for Departmental systems (priced $100,000 to $249,000) grew by 0.6% and Workgroup revenues (for systems priced below $100,000) advanced a healthy 11.4% over the same quarter in 2013.
“HPC technical server revenues are expected to grow at a healthy rate because of the crucial role they play in economic competitiveness as well as scientifi c progress,” said Earl Joseph, Program Vice President for Technical Computing at IDC. “As the global race toward exascale computing fuels the high end of the market, more small and medium-sized businesses and research organizations are exploiting HPC servers for advanced simulations and high performance data analysis.”
Backup revenue declines
Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues declined -2.5% year over year to $664.5 million in the fi rst quarter of 2014 (1Q14), according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker. In addition, the total PBBA open systems market fell -2.6% year over year in 1Q14 with revenues totaling $598.9 million while the mainframe market experienced a decline of -1.1% for the same period. Total worldwide PBBA capacity shipped for open systems and mainframe
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PBBA systems reached 398,280 terabytes, increasing 7.1% year over year.
“The worldwide PBBA market is showing maturity coupled with a typically slow fi rst quarter of the calendar year,” said Robert Amatruda, Research Director, Data Protection and Recovery. “We expect the PBBA market will resume growth over the months ahead as customers continue to embrace appliance form factors to meet their growing data protection and recovery challenges.”
said Jed Scaramella, Research Director, Enterprise Servers. “Many customers see the convergence of server, storage, and networking in Integrated Systems as a means to deliver IT effi ciency and agility. IDC expects to see more workload-optimized systems come to market in the near term.”
“Once again we witnessed an increasing number of organizations around the world leveraging integrated systems to address longstanding datacenter infrastructure ineffi ciencies,” said Eric Sheppard, Research Director, Storage. “As such, this market remains one of the fastest growing segments of the overall infrastructure market.”
EMEA security appliance market ‘stagnant’ ACCORDING to IDC’s Europe, Middle
East, and Africa Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, the EMEA security appliance market value reached $785.5 million in 1Q14 — a 1.4% decline year on year. Shipments fell 2.3% year on year, with 171,359 units shipped.
IDC expects the EMEA security appliance market to grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.3% in the fi ve years to 2018, to reach $4.4 billion in value. Cisco is the top overall security appliance vendor, with 19.0% market revenue share in 1Q14. Cisco increased its lead over closest rival Check Point to 1.8 percentage points (from 0.9% in 4Q13).
Unifi ed threat management (UTM) was the largest security appliance product category in 1Q14 and the only category to see growth in the quarter. UTM appliances increased 16.1% year on year to represent 48.7% of the total market value.
“The security appliance market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa slowed down in 1Q14 despite a lively industrial production recovery both in Western and Eastern Europe,” said Oleg Sidorkin, senior research analyst at IDC.
“We expect overall demand for security appliances to recover in the next quarters, though the political instability in Ukraine and the economic recession in Russia, one of the most dynamic markets in the past, will have an impact on market development.”
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