John Dinsdale

Cloud growth has been slowing for a number of reasons this year. Some of it has to do with macroeconomic headwinds causing customers to look to cut their cloud bills,…

Even as cloud growth continues to slow, market remains robust in Q2 at $65B

As expected, companies are continuing to cut back on their cloud spend where possible, as tech budgets continue to get careful scrutiny. That resulted in a quarter in which the…

Cloud infrastructure revenue growth dips to 19% in Q1, but still hits $63B for quarter

When the Big 3 cloud infrastructure vendors — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — reported their earnings this week, it was clear that the cloud is helping keep their overall numbers…

The biggest story from Big Tech earnings is the sheer growth power of public cloud

Imagine for a second that you could roll up the entire cloud market, everything from SaaS to infrastructure to platform, CDNs (content delivery networks), managed private clouds, data center rentals…

What downturn? The total cloud market reached $126B in Q1 2022

It’s been quite a week for data center industry consolidation in the U.S. Two companies, CyrusOne and CoreSite, announced deals valued at $15 billion and $10 billion, respectively. It is…

Data center companies CyrusOne and CoreSite acquired in deals totaling $25B

There is a prevailing notion that while the cloud infrastructure market is growing fast, the vast majority of workloads remain on premises. While that could be true, new research from…

Cloud infrastructure spending passed on-prem data centers in 2020

When you look at the Asia-Pacific (APAC) regional cloud infrastructure numbers, it would be easy to think that one of the Chinese cloud giants, particularly Alibaba, would be the leader…

APAC cloud infrastructure revenue reaches $9B in Q2 with Amazon leading the way

It’s fair to say that even before the impact of COVID-19, companies had begun a steady march to the cloud. Maybe it wasn’t fast enough for AWS, as Andy Jassy…

In spite of pandemic (or maybe because of it), cloud infrastructure revenue soars

At a time where all of the news seems to point toward negative economic activity, Synergy Research released a report today that data center M&A activity made a strong showing…

Synergy Research report finds data center M&A has already surpassed 2019