Dell EMC Leads HCI Hardware Sector as Numbers Rise

Dell EMC led the hardware segment of the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market with 32 percent market share during the third quarter of 2018, according to IHS Markit’s most recent Data Center Server Equipment Market Tracker.Dell EMC — whose HCI servers use software from VMware and Nutanix — finished ahead of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), which came in second at 25 percent (using its own software). Huawei, Cisco, and Supermicro all held between 8 percent and 9 percent market share. Though it is exiting the hardware sector, Nutanix finished at 5 percent. Lenovo and the white box vendors came in at about 5 percent as well. Nutanix and VMware led the software sector, though IHS Markit doesn’t provide percentages. This echoes a recent market share report by IDC that also named Nutanix and VMware as the leading HCI software vendors.