According to IDC, private and public cloud infrastructure product (server, storage and ethernet switch) revenues total $12.8 billion in Q4 2017, a 27.3% Y-o-Y increase.
Full-year 2017 revenues also see double-digit growth of 21.7% to reach $43.4bn. CEE sees the fastest growth within the EMEA region at 34.1%. MEA follows at 27.5%, while W. European growth is at 16.6%.
Public cloud infrastructure revenues total $8.5bn in Q4 2017 with 34% Y-o-Y growth. Private cloud revenues reach $4.3bn, a 15.7% Y-o-Y increase. Total WW cloud infrastructure revenue in 2017 almost doubled compared to 2013, and combined public-private cloud revenues make 42.2% of total global IT infrastructure spending, up from 39.3% in 2016.
Traditional (non-cloud) infrastructure is up by 12.8% in 2017, but it sees a trend of general decline over the past several years-- even if it still represents 57.8% of total Q4 2017 spending at $17.5bn.
"2017 finished strong for public cloud IT infrastructure growth, led by continued expansion by Amazon and renewed growth in Google and Facebook infrastructure," IDC says. "While there has been high growth in all IT infrastructure segments lately, public cloud, led by the hyperscalers, has resulted in the largest share of infrastructure growth, which is expected to continue at this pace for at least a few more quarters."
