Global integrated infrastructure and platforms market reported 33.8% rise in revenue during the second quarter of 2014 to $2.4bn.
According to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker, the overall new storage capacity shipments reached 833PB, up 63.4% compared to corresponding quarter last year.
IDC Storage research director Eric Sheppard said: "It’s notable that sales of integrated systems have driven considerable and continued growth at a time when many portions of the enterprise infrastructure market have experienced lackluster results.
"Integrated systems have clearly become a critical go-to market approach and an important source of growth for infrastructure suppliers looking to capitalize on a market need to reduce data centre infrastructure inefficiencies."
During the quarter, the Integrated Platforms market generated over $1bn in sales, demonstrating 11.1% growth rate and 43.7% of the overall market value.
Oracle topped the list of suppliers of Integrated Platform Systems and generated $577m in sales, which represents 55% share of the overall market segment.
Sales of integrated infrastructure rose by 59.2%, generating $1.35bn in sales, amounting to 56.3% of the overall market value.
VCE topped the list of suppliers of Integrated Infrastructure during the quarter, which generated $328.6m in revenues and capturing a 24.3% share of the market segment.
