Joy to the vendors, HCI's day has come. And converged ... becomes less... of a thing – IDC

HPE, Cisco, and NetApp are grabbing at the tail end of a fast-growing converged-slash-hyper-converged market that is utterly dominated by Dell's EMC and VMware businesses and HCI specialist Nutanix. As reported by Wells Fargo senior analyst Aaron Rakers, IDC's latest reading of this market sees total revenues up up 21 per cent …

[wjthompson]

I feel like I'm ... missing something

Wheres the source data link?

[NaterTot]

Source Data guess

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker from 25SEP18 is available here:

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS44330918

I'm guessing The Register got their hands on Wells Fargo senior analyst Aaron Rakers analysis of the as-yet-unpublished Q4 report?

[diodesign]

Re: Source Data guess

You've linked to IDC's Q2 analysis - which we also linked to. This latest article is about IDC's Q3 numbers. Aaron's seen them, analyzed them, and shared them with selected people.

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