HPE, Cisco maintain lead in cloud infrastructure equipment market

John Dinsdale, a chief analyst and research director at Synergy Research Group: “Growth in private cloud infrastructure is slowing down as enterprises shift more attention and workloads to the public cloud, but that means that there is a continued boom in shipments of infrastructure gear to public cloud providers.For traditional IT infrastructure vendors there is one fly in the ointment though -- hyperscale cloud providers account for an ever-increasing share of data centre gear and many of them are on a continued drive to deploy own-designed servers, storage and networking equipment, manufactured for them by ODMs.ODMs in aggregate now control a large and growing share of public cloud infrastructure shipments.”