RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 06/09/15 — New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Microsoft once again narrowed the gap with collaboration market leader Cisco, thanks to it widening its lead in hosted/cloud solutions and presenting a strong challenge in premise-based solutions. Meanwhile, for the first time total quarterly revenues from hosted/cloud solutions surpassed premise revenues. Cisco remains ahead in the total market accounting for over 14% share of worldwide revenues in the
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 06/08/15 — New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco and HP are now tied for market leadership in the rapidly growing cloud infrastructure equipment market. HP–s growth over the last four quarters has slightly outpaced Cisco–s, allowing it to close the gap on its prime competitor. In Q1 each vendor had a little over 13% worldwide market share, followed in the ranking by Microsoft, Dell, IBM, EMC, VMware and Lenovo. Across the different types of clo
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 04/27/15 — New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains larger than its four main competitors combined in the cloud infrastructure service market. Microsoft can once again lay claim to having by far the highest revenue growth rate and IBM remains the king of the private & hybrid services segment, but AWS continues to grow faster than the market as a whole and its market share crept up to 29% in the quarter. Google is quie
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 03/17/15 — New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco surged away from Microsoft in enterprise UC collaboration as revenues from the market hit an all-time high. Microsoft–s market share hit a peak in the first half of 2014 and it briefly matched Cisco for market leadership, but since then Cisco has accelerated away and has once again achieved a clear leadership role. In Q4 Cisco benefitted from a strong 9% sequential increase in revenues while Micro
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 03/12/15 — New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco and HP maintained their leadership of the cloud infrastructure equipment market and in aggregate accounted for 27% of worldwide revenues. Across the different types of cloud deployment, Cisco has a clear lead in public cloud infrastructure while HP leads in private cloud. Both vendors saw their share of the total cloud market drop a little from the previous quarter as their sequential revenue growt
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 02/02/15 — New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that really strong sequential growth at Amazon Web Services (AWS) propelled it to a five-year high in its share of the cloud infrastructure service market. 25% revenue growth from Q3 enabled AWS to grab a 30% worldwide market share in the final quarter of the year. Microsoft again achieved the highest year-on-year revenue growth, followed by Google, as all three cloud operators outperformed the total market g
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 12/15/14 — New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco has now strengthened its leadership of the cloud infrastructure equipment market and achieved a record high worldwide market share of 15%. HP increased its market share to almost 13% in Q3 and continues to battle Cisco for cloud infrastructure leadership. Meanwhile Microsoft took over the number three ranking from IBM, whose standing has been impacted by the impending sale of its x86 product line t
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 12/04/14 — New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that after two quarters where they were virtually evenly matched, Cisco once again pulled away from Microsoft in the enterprise collaboration infrastructure market. After inexorably narrowing the gap with Cisco, Microsoft took over the market leadership role in Q1, only for Cisco to win it back in Q2 — though in both cases the margins were extremely narrow. But in Q3 Cisco managed to grow its revenues sequen
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 11/20/14 — New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group show that 8×8 and RingCentral continue to lead the UCaaS business suite market, with each having a worldwide market share of just under 13%. However, among the leaders Mitel is growing the fastest with a 60% year-on-year increase in revenue and a more than twofold increase in subscribers. Meanwhile total market revenues keep growing by over 30% year-on-year.OTT UCaaS accounted for 57% of quarterly business suite re
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 10/29/14 — New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Microsoft clearly has the highest growth rate among the leading cloud infrastructure service operators, while Amazon (AWS) remains the dominant cloud service provider. Microsoft grew its revenues by 136% on a rolling annualized basis, resulting in its worldwide market share growing to over 10% in Q3. AWS–s cloud revenues jumped again after a relatively soft second quarter, resulting in its market share
