30 per cent of servers, storage and switches now sold to clouds

Three in ten servers, storage arrays and ethernet switches are now being sold to clouds, either private or public, says abacus-wielder IDC. The company's Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker for 2014's fourth quarter found that “total cloud IT infrastructure spending grew by 14.4% year over year to $8.0 billion …

[batfastad]

Hello darkness my old friend

Ah yes, the default HTML table styling, how I have missed thee!

[HWDewing]

You say - ":As that chart shows, Cisco, EMC and ODMs are doing very well indeed out of this cloud caper, be it private or public, while IBM, HP and Dell are picking up the occasional table scrap." While Cisco and EMC are growing faster from 2013 to 2014, HP and Dell both have more revenue and market share in 2013 & 2014 than Cisco and EMC - hardly table scraps.