Global converged system revenues total $3.5 billion in Q2 2018, IDC reports, a 9.9% Y-o-Y increase, the result of HCI allowing companies to reduce infrastructure complexity and promote further consolidation.
The analyst divides the converged systems market in 3 segments-- certified reference systems & integrated infrastructure, integrated platforms and hyperconverged systems. The certified reference systems & integrated infrastructure market is worth $1.3bn in Q2 2018, making 38.1% of overall revenues despite a -13.9% Y-o-Y decline. Dell is the largest supplier, with $639.8 million in sales and 47.5% share, followed by Cisco NetApp (35.7% share) and HPE (8.1%).
Integrated platform sales are down by -12.5% Y-o-Y in Q2 2018, reaching $729.4m and making 20.7% of total converged systems market revenues. Oracle is the top vendor with revenues of $440.6m, capturing 60.4% share of the market segment. On the other hand Q2 2018 hyperconverged system revenues are up by 78.1% Y-o-Y to reach $1.5bn, 41.2% of the market.
IDC ranks hyperconverged systems vendors in 2 ways-- by hyperconverged solution brand or by the owner of the software powering core hyperconverged capabilities. Dell is the largest suppliers of branded hyperconverged solutions, with $418.7m in revenue and 28.8% share. Nutanix comes 2nd, with $275.3m in revenue and 18.9% share, and 3rd place is a statistical tie between Cisco and HPE with $77.7m and $72.0m in revenue, or 5.3% and 4.9% in market share, respectively.
From the software ownership perspective, Nutanix represents 34.2% of the market with Q2 2018 revenues reaching $497.7m. VMware makes 34.1% of the market with $495.8m in revenues. Both amounts represent all software and hardware revenue, regardless of final branding.