Hyperscaling The Data Center

Spending on traditional data center infrastructure dropped 18% between 2015 and 2017, while spending on infrastructure products for the public cloud rose 35%. Much of that change reflects and ongoing migration of enterprises to the cloud. The percentage of workloads running on public-cloud platforms will rise to 60% by 2019, compared with 45% today. During 2016, collectively, Amazon, Microsoft and Google parent company Alphabet spent $31.54 billion in capital costs and leases, up 22% from the year before.