Over the past two years, an average of $29 billion per quarter has been spent on data center infrastructure — servers, operating systems, storage, networking, and virtualization software combined for roughly 95 percent of that spend, with network security and cloud management tools accounting for the remaining almost $1.5 billion.
That data center spend is “being increasingly driven by the cloud,” noted Synergy Research Group in its latest report, with cloud deployments or shipments of cloud-enabled systems accounting for more than half of the market’s total sales.
