According to IDC, the hyperconvergence market grew by 18.7% in the third quarter of 2019 attesting to the good health of a market which now represents 53.7% of the total converged systems market.
Sebastian Lagana, research manager, Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies at IDC, says, “Hyperconverged solutions remain in demand as vendors do an excellent job positioning the solutions as an ideal framework for hybrid, multi-cloud environments due to their software-defined nature and ease of integration into premises-agnostic environments”
It is no wonder its adoption is growing exponentially. According to Gartner, 70 percent of enterprises will be running some form of hyperconverged infrastructure by 2023. Added to this, IDC estimates that the sector continues to post good growth.
According to IDC, the segments of certified reference systems & integrated infrastructure and integrated platforms declined 8.4% and 13.9% respectively in the third quarter of 2019. Revenue from hyperconverged systems sales, one the other hand, grew 18.7% year over year during the period, generating nearly $2.02 billion worth of sales.
IDC offers two ways to rank technology suppliers within the hyperconverged systems market: by the brand of the hyperconverged solution or by the owner of the software providing the core hyperconverged capabilities.
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As it relates to the branded view of the hyperconverged systems market, Dell Technologies, with a 35.1% market share during the quarter, is the largest supplier while Nutanix, with market share 13.0%, is second.
From the software ownership view of the market, new systems running VMware hyperconverged software represented 38.0% of the total market. Systems running Nutanix hyperconverged software represented 27.2% of the total market.