Worldwide Converged Systems Revenue Decreased 1.4% Year Over Year in the Fourth Quarter of 2016 with Vendor Revenue at $3.09 Billion, According to IDC

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--()--According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, worldwide converged systems market revenues decreased 1.4% year over year to $3.09 billion during the fourth quarter of 2016 (4Q16). The market consumed 1.6 exabytes of new storage capacity during the quarter, which was up a moderate 4.0% compared to the same period a year ago. For the full year 2016, worldwide converged systems market revenues increased 5.8% to $11.3 billion when compared to 2015.

"The converged systems market is going through a period of change," said Eric Sheppard, research director, Enterprise Storage & Converged Systems. "We are seeing strong growth from products with new architectures, increased levels of automation, and heavy use of software-defined technologies. This growth has been offset by reduced spending on traditional converged systems and a conscious decision by some vendors to terminate some parts of their product portfolio."

Converged Systems Segments

IDC's converged systems market view offers four segments: integrated infrastructure, certified reference systems, integrated platforms, and hyperconverged systems. Integrated infrastructure and certified reference systems are pre-integrated, vendor-certified systems containing server hardware, disk storage systems, networking equipment, and basic element/systems management software. Integrated Platforms are integrated systems that are sold with additional pre-integrated packaged software and customized system engineering optimized to enable such functions as application development software, databases, testing, and integration tools. Hyperconverged systems collapse core storage and compute functionality into a single, highly virtualized solution. A key characteristic of hyperconverged systems that differentiate these solutions from other integrated systems is their scale-out architecture and their ability to provide all compute and storage functions through the same x86 server-based resources.

During the fourth quarter of 2016, the combined integrated infrastructure and certified reference systems market generated revenues of $1.57 billion, which represented a year-over-year decrease of 15.7% and 50.8% of the total market. Dell Technologies was the largest supplier of this combined market segment with $705.1 million in sales, or 44.9% share of the market segment.

 
Top 3 Vendors, Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure and Certified Reference Systems, Fourth Quarter of 2016 (Revenues are in Millions)
Vendor    

4Q16
Revenue

   

4Q16 Market
Share

   

4Q15
Revenue

   

4Q15 Market
Share

   

4Q16 /4Q15
Revenue
Growth

1. Dell Technologies*     $705.1     44.9%     $1,043.4     56.0%     -32.4%
2. Cisco/NetApp     $486.7     31.0%     $336.7     18.1%     44.5%
3. HPE     $228.9     14.6%     $324.1     17.4%     -29.4%
All Others     $149.7     9.5%     $158.6     8.5%     -5.6%
Total     $1,570.3     100%     1,862.8     100%     -15.7%
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, March 23, 2017

* Note: Dell Technologies represents the combined revenues for Dell and EMC sales for all quarters shown.

Integrated Platform sales declined 8.6% year over year during the fourth quarter of 2016, generating $823.5 million worth of sales. This amounted to 26.6% of the total market revenue. Oracle was the top-ranked supplier of Integrated Platforms during the quarter, generating revenues of $406.9 million and capturing a 49.4% share of the market segment.

 
Top 3 Vendors, Worldwide Integrated Platforms, Fourth Quarter of 2016 (Revenues are in Millions)
Vendor    

4Q16
Revenue

   

4Q16 Market
Share

   

4Q15
Revenue

   

4Q15 Market
Share

   

4Q16 /4Q15
Revenue
Growth

1. Oracle     $406.9     49.4%     $362.5     40.2%     12.2%
T2* IBM     $70.4     8.5%     $116.7     12.9%     -39.7%
T2* HPE     $70.1     8.5%     $74.8     8.3%     -6.3%
All Others     $276.1     33.5%     $347.3     38.5%     -20.5%
Total     $823.5     100%     901.3     100%     -8.6%
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, March 23, 2017
 

* Note: IDC declares a statistical tie in the worldwide converged systems market when there is a difference of one percent or less in the vendor revenue shares among two or more vendors.

Hyperconverged sales grew 87.3% year over year during the fourth quarter of 2016, generating $697.4 million worth of sales. This amounted to 22.6% of the total market value. The hyperconverged system market surpassed $2.2 billion in global revenue during the full calendar year (2016), which was 110% higher than 2015.

In addition to the tables above, an interactive graphic showing worldwide revenues for the four converged systems product categories over the previous five quarters is available here. Instructions on how to embed this graphic into online news articles and social media can be found by viewing this press release on IDC.com.

Taxonomy Notes:
IDC defines converged and hyperconverged systems as pre-integrated, vendor-certified systems containing server hardware, disk storage systems, networking equipment, and basic element/systems management software. Systems not sold with all four of these components are not counted within this tracker. Specific to management software, IDC includes embedded or integrated management and control software optimized for the auto discovery, provisioning and pooling of physical and virtual compute, storage and networking resources shipped as part of the core, standard integrated system. Numbers in this press release may not sum due to rounding.

For more information about IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker, please contact Lidice Fernandez at 305-351-3057 or lfernandez@idc.com.

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David Laing, 508-935-4344
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Michael Shirer, 508-935-4200
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Release Summary

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, worldwide converged systems market revenues decreased 1.4% year over year to $3.09 billion during Q4 2016.

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Contacts

IDC
Eric Sheppard, 508-988-7925
esheppard@idc.com
or
David Laing, 508-935-4344
dlaing@idc.com
or
Michael Shirer, 508-935-4200
press@idc.com