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According to the quarterly tracking report of IDC Global Cloud IT Infrastructure, in the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), sales of cloud IT infrastructure products (servers, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switches), including public and private clouds, grew 28.0 percent year-on-year to $16.8 billion. Annual spending on public and private cloud IT infrastructure (vendor revenue plus channel bonus) totaled $66.1 billion in 2018, slightly higher than the forecast for the third quarter of 2018 (1.3%). IDC also raised its forecast for total investment in cloud IT infrastructure in 2009 to $70.1 billion, up 6.0 per cent from a year earlier and 4.5 per cent from the previous quarter.

Quarterly spending on public cloud IT infrastructure fell 6.9% in the fourth quarter compared with the previous quarter, but still doubled in the past two years to $11.9 billion, up 33.0% from a year earlier. Spending on private cloud infrastructure increased by 19.6% to $5.75 billion. Since 2013, when IDC began tracking IT infrastructure deployments in different environments, public cloud spending has accounted for the bulk of cloud IT infrastructure. As IDC expected, this ratio peaked at 69.6% in 2018, with public cloud infrastructure spending growing at an annual rate of 50.2%. In 2018, spending on private cloud services increased by 24.8% compared with the same period last year.

The quarterly revenue of suppliers selling IT infrastructure products to the cloud environment declined in 4Q18, which was once again lower than that of traditional IT environments, accounting for 48.3% of the total revenue of global IT infrastructure vendors, up from 42.4% last year, but down from 50.9% in the previous quarter. For the whole of 2018, spending on cloud IT infrastructure is still less than 50%, reaching 48.4%. Spending in all three technology areas of the cloud IT environment is expected to grow more slowly in 2019 than in previous years. Ethernet switches will grow fastest at 23.8%, while spending on storage platforms will grow by 9.1%. Spending on computing platforms will remain at $35 billion, but still slightly higher than IDC's previous forecast.

The annual growth rate of the traditional IT infrastructure division fell to less than 1 per cent from the previous quarter, compared with 11.1 per cent quarterly growth. For the whole of this year, global spending on traditional IT infrastructure increased by 12.2%, fully in line with expectations. The market has begun to go through a technology renewal cycle and will gradually slow down by 2019. By 2023, we expect traditional IT infrastructure to account for only 40.5% of total global IT infrastructure spending (down from 51.6% in 2018). This loss of share, as well as the growing share of cloud environments in overall IT infrastructure spending, is common in all regions.

Kuba Stolarski, director of infrastructure systems, platforms and technology research at IDC, said, "in 2018, the infrastructure systems market is growing like never before in both cloud and non-cloud areas. As market participants prepare for very difficult growth comparisons in 2019, coupled with strong cyclical macroeconomic headwinds, cloud IT infrastructure will be the main growth engine supporting overall market performance until the next cyclical update. With the advent of a new internal public cloud stack, private cloud deployment is likely to increase significantly over the next five years. "

Cloud IT infrastructure revenue is growing in double digits in all regions. Canada is the country with the fastest income growth, with an increase of 67.2% compared with the same period last year, while China's growth rate is 54.4%. Other regions with the fastest growth in the fourth quarter included Western Europe (39.7%), Latin America (37.9%), Japan (30.9%), Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East and Africa (30.9% and 30.2%, respectively), Asia / Pacific (excluding Japan) (APeJ) (28.5%) and the United States (15.5%).

Note:

* IDC announced that there will be a statistical draw in the global cloud IT infrastructure market when the revenue share of two or more vendors differs by 1% or less.

* * because of the joint venture between HPE and Xinhua 3, IDC has reported HPE's global external market share as "HPE/ Xinhua 3" since the second quarter of 2016.

In the long run, IDC expects cloud IT infrastructure spending to grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.9 percent, reaching $99.9 billion by 2023, accounting for 59.5 percent of total IT infrastructure spending. Public cloud data centers will account for 68.3% of this number, with an average annual compound growth rate of 10.4%. Spending on private cloud infrastructure will grow at a CAGR of 12.0%.

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