Laut dem Research- und Beratungsunternehmen Gartner wuchs der weltweite Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)-Markt 2017 um 29,5 Prozent auf insgesamt 23,5 Milliarden US-Dollar, gegenüber 18,2 Milliarden US-Dollar im Jahr 2016. Amazon besetzte 2017 die Spitzenposition im IaaS-Markt, gefolgt von Microsoft, Alibaba, Google und IBM.
»Die vier größten Anbieter verfügen über starke IaaS-Angebote und konnten ein gesundes Wachstum verzeichnen. Dies liegt daran, dass die Einführung von IaaS von einer breiten Masse an Unternehmen voll akzeptiert wurde und die Verfügbarkeit der Cloud auf neue Regionen und Länder ausgedehnt werden konnte«, erläutert Sid Nag, Research Director bei Gartner. »Die IT-Ausgaben für Cloud machen heute mehr als 20 Prozent des gesamten IT-Budgets für Unternehmen aus, die Cloud nutzen. Viele dieser Unternehmen nutzen heute die Cloud zur Unterstützung der Produktionsumgebungen und geschäftskritischer Abläufe.«
Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 29.5 Per Cent in 2017
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The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 per cent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2017, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM.
»The top four providers have strong IaaS offerings and saw healthy growth as IaaS adoption is being fully embraced by mainstream organisations and as cloud availability expands into new regions and countries,« said Sid Nag, research director at Gartner. »Cloud-directed IT spending now constitutes more than 20 per cent of the total IT budget for organisations using cloud. Many of these organisations are now using cloud to support production environments and business-critical operations.«
In the IaaS market, the competitive landscape is consolidating around the leaders. The top four providers — Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba and Google — are all hyperscale IaaS providers and represent approximately 73 per cent of the total IaaS market and 47 per cent of the combined IaaS and infrastructure utility services (IUS) market.
Amazon is the clear leader in the worldwide IaaS market with an estimated $12.2 billion revenue in 2017, up 25 per cent from 2016 (see Table 1). The largest of the IaaS providers, Amazon is also the most mature, organisation-ready provider, with the strongest track record of customer success and the most useful partner ecosystem. Growth in 2017 was driven not only by customers that are migrating from traditional data centers to cloud IaaS, but also by customers implementing transformational digital business projects, reflecting its broad range of use cases.
Table 1
Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Share, 2016-2017 (Millions of US Dollars)
| Company | 2017
Revenue |
2017 Market
Share (%) |
2016
Revenue |
2016 Market Share (%) | 2017-2016 Growth (%) |
| Amazon | 12,221 | 51.8 | 9,775 | 53.7 | 25.0 |
| Microsoft | 3,130 | 13.3 | 1,579 | 8.7 | 98.2 |
| Alibaba | 1,091 | 4.6 | 670 | 3.7 | 62.7 |
| 780 | 3.3 | 500 | 2.7 | 56.0 | |
| IBM | 457 | 1.9 | 297 | 1.6 | 53.9 |
| Others | 5,902 | 25.0 | 5,392 | 29.6 | 9.5 |
| Total | 23,580 | 100.0 | 18,213 | 100.0 | 29.5 |
Source: Gartner (August 2018)
Microsoft secured the No. 2 position in the IaaS market with growth of more than 98 per cent on its IaaS offering, with revenue surpassing $3.1 billion in 2017. Microsoft delivers its IaaS capabilities through its Microsoft Azure offering, which is a collection of infrastructure and platform services.
In the third spot, Alibaba’s 2017 growth of 63 per cent reflects the company’s successful investment in research and development (R&D). Alibaba has the financial capability to continue this trend and invest in global expansion, giving the company potenzial to become over time an alternative to the global hyperscale cloud providers in select regions.
»This reflects a fundamental change in what and how organisations are consuming technology. Some legacy infrastructure offerings, such as IUS, are seeing lower and slower uptake that impacts the combined IaaS and IUS market,« Mr Nag said. »Additionally, a groundswell of demand for cloud-skilled personnel is forcing technology providers to change how they compete to meet this exploding demand.«
Gartner clients can learn more in the report »Market Share Analysis: IaaS and IUS, Worldwide, 2017.«
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