Four US companies dominate the world of cloud infrastructure - There are many companies vying for a piece of the cloud infrastructure mar...
There are many companies vying for a piece of the cloud infrastructure market worldwide, but the four first - all in the United States - currently dominated by such a margin to effectively leave competitors in the dust.
This is the main conclusion of a study released Monday by Synergy Research Group, which provides market tracking and segmentation of quarterly data, including income of suppliers by segment and region.
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM and Google together control more than half the global market for cloud infrastructure services, Synergy found, with an overwhelming lead by AWS, which held a share of 31 percent in the second quarter. Microsoft follows with 11 percent, while IBM weighed 8 percent, and Google came with 5 percent.
Synergy included infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and hosted private cloud services in its figures.
"Amazon and the other three players have distanced themselves from the competition in this market and continue to widen the gap," said John Dinsdale, chief analyst and research director with Synergy. " what marks them as different is their presence in the world, the muscle of marketing, the ability to finance huge investment in hyperscale data centers and, in most cases, a determination to succeed in the market. "
the four main leaders are also growing faster than their smaller competitors, Synergy found. all in all, the big four have increased their infrastructure service revenues cloud 68 percent in the second quarter, while the next 20 largest providers were up 41 percent. all other small suppliers increased only 27 percent. overall, the market as a whole increased 51 percent.
AWS remains "in a league of its own," holding a clear lead in all major regions and most market segments, Synergy said, but Microsoft and Google enjoy growth rates substantially higher. IBM, meanwhile, leads the segment hosted private cloud, he said.
global revenues for cloud infrastructure services is now close to US $ 28 billion, Synergy believes. North America continues to account for over half of the global market. Although the regions Europe / Middle East / Africa and Asia / Pacific are similar in size, Asia / Pacific is growing faster.
U.S. companies are often at the head of the pack in the technology markets, but the heavy domination in it is striking, and it is not a lack of foreign competitors. Also included in the top 20 of Synergy are Alibaba, Fujitsu, NTT, China Telecom, BT and Orange.
Cloud is also an area where privacy and other issues have raised serious concerns data sovereignty, particularly in Europe. Many cloud companies have built regional centers response data, and Privacy Shield - replacing the agreement of the US and European Safe Harbor defunct -. Just recently taken effect, promising to facilitate data transfers
Still, the domination of the United States of cloud services could present opportunities for local cloud providers, Dinsdale said.
"I expect to see vendors in other regions, particularly Asia, grow rapidly and become increasingly competitive," agreed Charles King, analyst at Pund-IT director. "The political issues in certain countries - China is a good example -. Will probably easier for companies to compete with us there, and reduce effort by suppliers elsewhere"
At the future size and variety of the cloud market is unlikely that any supplier will become fully dominant and threaten innovation or choice, king said.
instead, "we see suppliers build much of their efforts on specific areas of expertise," he said. "This is great for customers because most services that result are well aligned with their real business needs."
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