RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 10/07/14 — New Q2 data contained in a complimentary report from Synergy Research Group (which can be downloaded ) shows that client software is the fastest growing software category within the video infrastructure software market, followed by headend software. They have grown by 10%-20% in the past year while the third major category, content security, has actually declined. In total the video infrastructure software market has grown by 7% on rolling year-on-year b
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 12/03/13 — New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco held on to leadership of UC collaboration with a 24% market share, while Microsoft, which has been inexorably closing the gap on Cisco, dropped off the pace a little in Q3 with its share slipping to 19%. Avaya reversed a trend of market share decline by boosting UC application and telephony sales, a sign that it remains a strong competitor. Worldwide revenue from UC collaboration — which includes
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 11/27/13 — New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that the three global IT giants — Microsoft, IBM and Google — continue to lag far behind Amazon (AWS) in the IaaS/PaaS market, despite all of them achieving strong growth and despite IBM-s acquisition of SoftLayer. Even after adding the PaaS revenues of salesforce.com, in aggregate the group lags some 15% behind Amazon in terms of IaaS/PaaS revenues. In a worldwide market that grew 46% from Q3 of 2012, Amaz
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 11/26/13 — New data from Synergy Research Group shows that Q3 retail colocation revenues in EMEA grew 10% from 2012 to reach almost $1.5 billion. The three clear market leaders in the region — Equinix, TelecityGroup and Interxion — each grew more strongly than the market as a whole and gained market share over their local rivals. In aggregate the three now account for almost a quarter of the fragmented EMEA market. Each of the three leaders has a strong colocatio
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 10/01/13 — New data from Synergy Research Group shows that total colocation revenues grew 9% year on year to reach $5.2 billion in Q2 and are on track to hit $30 billion by 2017. Retail colocation accounted for 78% of Q2 revenues, though the smaller wholesale segment continues to grow more strongly. North America accounts for 44% of worldwide revenues, thanks in part to its well-developed wholesale sector. Revenue will continue to grow strongly in all regions, demo
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 09/24/13 — New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco maintained leadership of the cloud infrastructure equipment market, after taking over pole position for the first time in the previous quarter. Long-time leader IBM saw its share of the market bounce back a little from the historic low it saw in Q1, but not by enough to close the gap with Cisco. HP-s share slid a little to just over 14%. Total quarterly revenues from cloud infrastructure once again
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 09/09/13 — New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that across six key enterprise infrastructure market segments, vendor revenues grew 1.5% relative to the second quarter of 2012 and grew 6.2% from the low experienced in the first quarter of 2013. Aggregated revenues from the six markets reached $11.3 billion, giving a total of $44.7 billion for the last four quarters combined. Ethernet switching comprises by far the largest segment of the enterprise market a
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 08/21/13 — New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Amazon (AWS) still maintains a formidable lead in the worldwide IaaS/PaaS market. The three IT heavyweights — Microsoft, Google and IBM — are all chasing hard and are growing aggressively, but their aggregated revenues in the market still equate to only 63% of Amazon-s. While a much smaller company overall, Salesforce with its force.com offering has similar cloud infrastructure revenues to the other th
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 08/20/13 — New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that while the cloud UCaaS market as a whole grew 22% year-on-year in Q2, Vocalocity and ShoreTel led the growth charge among the biggest players by some margin, generating annual revenue growth of 45% and 37% respectively. iCore, RingCentral and 8×8 all saw year-on-year revenue growth in the 18%-22% range. In aggregate the six market leaders accounted for 54% of total quarterly UCaaS revenues, with 8×8 maint
RENO, NV — (Marketwired) — 06/10/13 — New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco has taken over leadership of the cloud infrastructure equipment market, just one quarter after IBM-s share of the market had hit a two-year high. The first quarter was an exceedingly poor one for the server market, and as a consequence IBM and HP both took a big hit in cloud infrastructure equipment revenues. Meanwhile Cisco had a very strong quarter in public cloud networking infrastructure, helpi
