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Cisco remains top cloud firm, says report

16 Sep 2015
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New second quarter data from Synergy Research Group showed that Cisco widened the gap from Microsoft, thanks to achieving considerably stronger growth in premise-based solutions where it has a 25% market share.

For the second consecutive quarter total revenues from hosted/cloud solutions exceeded those of premise-based collaboration, but the competitive landscape is very different in this segment with no single vendor able to achieve a 10% market share, the research firm said.

Microsoft continues to lead in hosted/cloud collaboration followed by Cisco, Google, Verizon and AT&T – with the latter three having almost identical market shares. The total collaboration market grew 5% year on year with Cisco increasing its share to 15%.

Other major players in the market include Avaya, IBM, Polycom, Citrix, Mitel, Unify and ALE.

Total revenues from collaboration - which includes enterprise voice, UC applications, telepresence, email software, enterprise content management, enterprise social networks and a range of hosted/cloud communications and applications - were approaching $9 billion in the quarter.

Revenues from hosted/cloud solutions continue to grow strongly - up 10% year on year - while revenue from premise-based systems were flat. During the quarter particularly strong growth was seen in hosted contact center, hosted video, hosted voice & UCaaS, and a range of other hosted solutions.

Hosted teamwork applications is a new emerging area that will see aggressive growth, featuring Cisco's Spark and vendors like Slack, Cotap and Redbooth.

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