Worldwide AI Server and Storage Infrastructure Market Shares, 2021: Inspur Takes the Lead in a Strong Recovery
This IDC study provides an overview of the worldwide AI server and storage infrastructure market shares for 2021."The AI server and storage market recovered strongly from the 2020 pandemic-related dip to a total market size of $18.8 billion in 2021," said Peter Rutten, research vice president, Performance Intensive Computing, at IDC. "In 2020, the AI infrastructure recovery was led by vendors in the PRC, but in 2021, several U.S. vendors also participated in growth."
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- IDC Market Share Figure
- Executive Summary
- Advice for Technology Suppliers
- Provide Support, Ensure Consistency, and Design Purpose-Built AI Edge Infrastructure
- Provide Enterprise-Grade AI Storage, with Easy Backup, and Flexible Access Methods
- Design Servers for PIC, with Consumption-Based Pricing, and Pretrained AI Models
- Market Share
- Who Shaped the Year
- Inspur
- H3C
- Lenovo
- Market Context
- Growth Accelerators
- Increasing Adoption of AI Software
- Coprocessor Adoption
- Increasing Size of AI Models
- Growth Inhibitors
- Need for Significant Investments
- Lack of AI Infrastructure Skills for AI
- Significant Market Developments
- April 2021
- June 2021
- September 2021
- December 2021
- Methodology
- Market Definition
- AI Servers
- AI Storage (External Storage Systems)
- Related Research
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