Recent Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Google North America's cloud business will grow faster than the Bay Area in 2017 outside of the San Francisco Bay Area and that Google will expand its investment in five large data centers in nine states across the country but this is just the beginning , Google's parent Alphabet came out in partnership with oil company Armco to build a large data center in Saudi Arabia, apparently blocking Amazon, the cloud data center leader, as Amazon has announced it will bring AWS services by 2019 Middle East. Google Google Plus investment expansion of data centers, looking to catch up with rivals, the current global cloud infrastructure services market, Amazon is still far ahead of the market share of up to 32% (research firm Canalys statistics), Microsoft Azure Google accounted for 14%, Google ranked third, the market share of 8%, IBM ranked fourth, the market share of 4%. Microsoft did not mind it, in the past year Microsoft's data center growth rate reached 98%, followed by For Google, an annual increase of 85%, while AWS is an annual increase of 45% speed, leading the competition. Looking to the future, the global data center market will continue to grow, the pre- The growth rate will reach 36% in 2018. In addition to the cloud infrastructure service providers, that is, public cloud industry, the demand for the other major data center comes from the private cloud industry, which in turn is mainly Facebook and Apple (Apple) which, Facebook continued Through its active user base, expanding its service offerings, Facebook has three data centers under construction in 2017 at Odense in Denmark, Papillon in the state of Nebreska in the United States and New Albany in the state of Ohio in October 2017. Facebook announced in Virginia in the United States Henrico invests $ 1 billion to build a new data center.According to Apple's earnings reports, cloud services revenue, including Apple Music, has surpassed Mac and iPad, second only to the iPhone, the latest earnings report released in February 2018, service revenue Reaching 8,471,000,000 US dollars, far higher than the Mac 6,895,000,000 US dollars and iPad 5,862,000,000 US dollars, Apple also released the number of active devices, the move means that Apple intends to reduce dependence on the iPhone, increase service revenue scale, etc. Apple is facing hardware limitations Difficulties, due to hardware innovation and mass production constraints, difficult and the market is expected to strike a balance of prices, the industry is expected to follow-up by Apple services will increase the number of active equipment , Increasing the scale of service business, expanding the ecosystem and boosting the demand for data centers.DIGITIMES Research estimates that the demand for data centers will continue to grow due to the expansion of public cloud or private cloud data centers. In 2018, Revenue from network equipment including motherboards, servers and storage systems will grow by 16%, while growth for server and storage vendors Quanta, Weying and network switch provider Accton will be on a positive note. Quanta is a white card Server leader, server shipments in 2017 to achieve double-digit growth target, 2018 is also expected to achieve this goal, for the market with a high degree of confidence; Wei Ying listed in the OTC in November 2017, the growth rate of operations even more alarming, Revenue for the first half of 2017 was close to the revenue of the previous year, with a growth of 72.22% in the second half of the year and a 172.22% increase in revenue for the full year. Wellington is optimistic about the expected server or storage shipments in 2018. In addition to servers and Switch hardware in storage and data centers is also a highly growth area, and Acibad, the fastest-performing switch in the field of high-speed switches, has a positive view of the market. The ecosystem will be more complete by 2018, and then into the 400G generation, the data center is expected to continue to push forward the demand for high-speed transmission.Cloud infrastructure services have become the oligarchic market that big manufacturers can afford to play, originally having a certain scale AT & T, Verizon and HPE have all withdrawn from the market because the market requires large investments and the back-of-the-line vendors are not profitable because the capital invested in the market has surpassed the revenue growth rate and will be difficult without substantial capital support Continued. As customers continue to invest in expanding their data centers, revenue growth can not keep up, making cost control even more critical as white-label hardware vendors become more competitive and simplifying hardware design, including heavyweights such as Facebook and Microsoft Have entered the OCP to create common technical specifications, lower the hardware threshold, raise the general private cloud customers using the willingness to white products, the future of white hardware factory will have several years of good prospects.
