Profits Remain Elusive as Cloud Providers Target Revenue Growth over Profitability

INCLINE VILLAGE, NV, Feb. 22, 2021 - According to a new report published by 650 Group, titled: IaaS Hyperscaler SWOT Report 2020-2025, IaaS revenue grew to over $100 B in 2020 and $50 B in Capital Expenditures for data center equipment (servers, storage, networking) and other compute and IT equipment.  Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google GCP made up over 60% of the revenue with Alibaba being the largest non-US provider.

AWS brought in $86,000 per minute in revenue and made $26,000 per minute in profit dollars.  While GCP, in third place, brought in $3,300 per minute in revenue while losing $1,400 per minute in 2020.  Additionally, 2020 saw Alibaba record its first profitable quarter.

"While revenue continues to surge for IaaS as many businesses rely on it as a foundational building block for their data, profit dollars remain challenging as companies look to grow and expand instead of relying solely of profit to make investment decisions," said Alan Weckel, Founding Technology Analyst at 650 Group.

Continued Weckel: "2021 is shaping up as an important battle of US IaaS hyperscalers as they invest to their strengths to continuing expanding.  The battle for Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML) with IaaS providers is presently in its infancy with many suppliers vying for position for the underlying technology."

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650 Group offers this report for $995 to a single user at a single company and $1,995 to a group of five users at a single company and have additional options for redistribution and external use of the data.  To purchase:  https://650group.com/IaaS-Hyperscaler-SWOT-report.html

Companies covered in the report include hyperscale cloud providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google GCP in addition to IaaS comparisons with IBM, Oracle, and Alibaba. The report also discusses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the US Top-3 IaaS hyperscalers.

About 650 Group
650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center, and cloud markets.  Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.  650 Group focuses on leading-edge market trends and research and prides itself on first to market research with numerous research programs focused on Cloud and technology trends. For more information, visit: http://www.650group.com
 
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Colocation Providers Have a Key Role in Enterprise Deployment as Well as Future AI and ML Workloads

INCLINE VILLAGE, NEV. Feb. 3, 2021 - According to a new report published by 650 Group, titled Workloads and Multi-Cloud Forecast 2020-2025, the worldwide number of workloads being deployed will increase nearly 500% by 2025.  Workloads continue to evolve for both search and social clouds, as well as IaaS and SaaS providers.

Workload definitions evolve as technology expands.  Historically, the context of a workload tied it directly to the number of servers, and later, it was the number of virtual machines (VMs) or applications that spanned machines.  Today, the context evolves to the number of containers or individual serverless code-snippets.  The compute, storage, and networking infrastructure had to evolve to support how the application changes.  

"Multi-Cloud and new AI /ML workloads are driving significant investment in data centers with new compute and networking infrastructures emerging to address new workloads," said Alan Weckel, Technology Analyst at 650 Group. “The time has passed for an application and its data to reside in one data center. There is a tremendous opportunity for new vendors in multi-cloud, as well as co-location, to address the evolving needs of enterprises.”

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650 Group offers this report for $995 to a single user at a single company and $1,995 to a group of five users at a single company and have additional options for redistribution and external use of the data.  To purchase:  https://650group.com/multi-cloud-workloads-forecast-report.html
The report also discusses the impact of the changes to component suppliers, end-users, system vendors, and is targeted for System Vendors, ASIC suppliers, and component suppliers.

About 650 Group
650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center, and cloud markets.  Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.  650 Group focuses on leading-edge market trends and research and prides itself on first to market research with numerous research programs focused on Cloud and technology trends.

COVID-19 Hits Supply Chain; Demand Varies Based on Vertical and Geography

PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif – May 27, 2020 – A newly released report by 650 Group, a leading market intelligence research firm for communications, data center, and cloud markets, indicates that the Ethernet Switch Market declined nearly 10% Y/Y on weak campus and data center results in 1Q20, declining to approximately $7B. The report also indicated significant regional differences amongst vendors, as well as aggressive ASP fluctuations in the market.
“The Ethernet Switch market contracted in the expected regions and verticals in 1Q20,” said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group. “Supply chain constraints in factories and components remain entering the last month of 2Q20. Certain component shortages will remain well into 2021 as vendors prioritize customers and products throughout the year.  Our vertical analysis of the campus and data center Ethernet switching markets indicates a different recovery rate and use of technology as the market begins to rebound in 2H20.  Digital transformation and the use of cloud platforms will be critical to companies going forward, especially as the digital divide increases across regions and customers.”
The 650 Group Quarterly Ethernet Switch report also indicates what impact the trade war is having on campus suppliers and the surge in 25 Gbps port shipments from H3C and Huawei.  
The report highlights how campus Ethernet switching outperformed data center switching with new products from Arista, Cisco, Extreme Networks, and Juniper all ramping during the quarter.
About the Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report The Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report offers a market assessment of vendor performance and market share in the Ethernet Switch market.  The report covers Modular, Fixed Managed, Smart Switching, White Box, Disaggregation, and other segmentation as well as the following port speeds: 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5.0 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 25 Gbps, 40 Gbps, 50 Gbps, 100 Gbps, 200 Gbps, 400 Gbps, and 800 Gbps.  
For more information about the report, contact the sales department at 650 Group at +1 650 600 7104 or val@650group.com or www.650group.com.

About 650 Group 650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets.  ​Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.


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PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif.  August 8, 2019 —  According to a newly released report issued by founding analysts of 650 Group, US Hyperscaler Cloud market revenue grew 25% Y/Y in 2Q19 while CAPEX used for DC Equipment returned to growth with mid-teen Y/Y results.
 
650 Group’s Cloud Report covers Colocation, IaaS, SaaS, and Search & Social.
 
2Q19 Highlights:

• Data Center Capital Equipment Expenditures grew over 15% Y/Y
• Tier 2 Cloud providers shifting some spend away from their own build outs and towards US Hyperscalers
  
• Facebook lowered 2019 CAPEX projection for the second straight quarter
• Microsoft Azure continues to gain on Amazon AWS in the IaaS market
• White Box Switching, led by Accton, shows strongest Y/Y growth since 2017
• DRAM pricing continued to decline significantly on a sequential basis; capacity continued to surge
• AMD continues to grow market share in the Cloud

 
The Cloud reports includes CAPEX studies for the Colocation, IaaS, SaaS, and Search and Social Media markets including unique look at spending specifically for data center equipment.  Going beyond just Cloud revenue provides a unique look into where and how the largest Cloud providers deploy equipment.  In the report, you can see the trend towards more CAPEX spending occurring in IaaS as many SaaS providers choose IaaS instead of building out their own infrastructure.
 
“2Q'19 Cloud results rebounded strongly albeit with very mixed results,” said Alan Weckel, founding analyst for 650 Group. “Strong networking growth in 2Q19 remained 100 Gbps dominated with minimal 400 Gbps shipments. Strong commodity price declines remained in parts of the supply chain. Our forecast projections for the remainder of 2019 and early 2020 remain unchanged as we analyzed results and continue to expect uneven CAPEX growth amongst the US hyperscalers for the remainder of the year.”
 
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Enterprise and Data Center Switching markets shatter old records

Portola Valley, California – Feb. 26, 2019 – A newly released report by 650 Group, a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets, indicates that the Ethernet Switch Market grew 10% Y/Y on strong campus and data center growth in 2018 to slightly over $31 Billion.  The report also indicated China revenue reached an all-time high in the year on robust campus and data center growth.

“The Data Center market continued to surge despite some concerns of Cloud CAPEX growth rates slowing.  There is a disconnect in Cloud CAPEX and networking CAPEX; we note that networking CAPEX continues to be robust, despite overall CAPEX growth rate contractions amongst the largest Cloud providers,” said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group.  “Overall CAPEX growth rate slowdown is being driven by Compute and Storage.  400G seems to have pushed out about one full quarter as well from both a system and optics view with the market anticipated second generation 400 Gbps product announcements by the end of the calendar year.”

The Quarterly Ethernet Switch report also indicates the Cisco and HPE Aruba were responsible for over half the revenue growth in the Enterprise market while Arista and White Box were responsible for over half the revenue growth in the Data Center Market. The Quarterly Ethernet Switch report related to this segment indicates that Arista, Cisco, HPE, and Juniper are the market leaders in the Ethernet Switch Market in 2018 in the United States while H3C, Huawei, and Ruijie are the market leaders in China.

About the Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report
The Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report offers a market assessment of vendor performance and market share in the Ethernet Switch market.  The report covers Modular, Fixed Managed, Smart Switching, White Box, Disaggregation, and other segmentation as well as the following port speeds: 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 5.0 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 25 Gbps, 40 Gbps, 50 Gbps, 100 Gbps, 200 Gbps, and 400 Gbps.  For more information about the report, contact the sales department at 650 Group at +1 650 600 7104 or val@650group.com or www.650group.com.
 
About 650 Group
650 Group is a leading Market Intelligence Research firm for communications, data center and cloud markets.  ​Our team has decades of research experience, has worked in the technology industry, and is actively involved in standards bodies.
 
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