Hey Cisco, HP’s just snatched your cloud infra equipment market share

MUMBAI, INDIA: In a rude shock to networking giant Cisco, Hewlett-Packard won the top spot in cloud infrastructure equipment sales for the first time in Q22015.

In doing so, HP beat long-time leader Cisco Systems.

For the first time in the company’s history, HP has beaten Cisco to become the No 1 player in cloud infrastructure equipment sales in Q2 2015, according to Synergy Research Group.

As per the research group, the duo had been tied for the past two quarters, but HP managed to break the ice with a 13 percent worldwide market share in Q2 while Cisco’s share dipped by half a percentage point to 12.5 percent.

While HP maintained the lead in private cloud market share, Cisco led in public cloud infrastructure, essentially because of its dominance in the networking segment and rapid growth in the server segment, according to the study.

“The public cloud services market is clearly booming and driving heavy investment in cloud infrastructure, while a rapid transition to cloud is also in full swing in the enterprise IT market,” said Jeremy Duke, Founder and Chief Analyst, Synergy.

“Cisco continues to ride these waves very successfully, but what has enabled HP to grab the lead is the fact that servers and storage account for almost two-thirds of the market and HP is now rapidly evolving its huge business in these segments.”

Synergy said that overall cloud infrastructure equipment revenues, including both hardware and software, now total $16 billion per quarter, which marks a 25 percent year-on-year increase in the industry.