The global converged systems market sees revenues worth $3.9 billion in Q2 2019, IDC reports, a 10.9% Y-o-Y increase brought about by converged infrastructure solutions evolving to align with the needs of a hybrid cloud world.
"Modern converged solutions are driving growth because they allow organisations to leverage standardized, software-defined, and highly automated datacenter infrastructure that is increasingly the on-premises backbone of a seamless multi-cloud world," the analyst continues.
Converged solutions are defined by the analyst as pre-integrated, vendor-certified systems containing server hardware, disk storage systems, networking equipment, and basic element/systems management software. IDC does not count systems not sold with all four of these components are not counted within this analysis.
IDC 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 $1.5bn in Q2 2019, a 10.5% Y-o-Y increase and 37.5% of total converged systems revenue. Integrated platform sales are down by -14.4% Y-o-Y to $626 million, making 16% of the total. Hyperconverged systems sales are up by 23.7% Y-o-Y in Q2 2019, bringing sales of $1.8bn accounting to 46.6% of the total market.
Dell is the largest branded hardware vendor in terms of revenue, with $533.2m and 29.2% share. Nutanix follows with $258.8m, 14.2% of the total, while 3rd placing Cisco generates $144m in revenues representing 6.2% market share. As for software, VMware makes $694.1m in Q2 2019 revenues, or 38% of the total market. Nutanix software represents $522m in revenue, making 28.6% market share.
