Current Landscape
Current landscape of IT Infrastructure and Services can be separated into three major categories, On-Premise, in the Corporate Cloud Providers and Decentralized and Distributed services providers.
We will not go into details of On-Premise IT infrastructure, however it still represented 58% market share in 20201 according to Business Wire.
Current landscape of Cloud Services is largely dominated by several major services providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba, Google, Huawei and others2. These may be consider the established and highly centralized players.
| Company | 2020 Revenue | 2020 Market | 2019 Revenue | 2019 Market Share (%) | 2019-2020 Growth (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 26,201 | 40.8 | 20,365 | 44.6 | 28.7 |
| Microsoft | 12,658 | 19.7 | 7,950 | 17.4 | 59.2 |
| Alibaba | 6,117 | 9.5 | 4,004 | 8.8 | 52.8 |
| 3,932 | 6.1 | 2,367 | 5.2 | 66.1 | |
| Huawei | 2,672 | 4.2 | 882 | 1.9 | 202.8 |
| Others | 12,706 | 19.8 | 10,115 | 22.1 | 25.6 |
| Total | 64,286 | 100.0 | 45,684 | 100.0 | 40.7 |
Decentralized and Distributed Competition
In addition to established and highly centralized players, there are several disruptors from the Decentralized and Distributed areas, these are however still trying to find their right positioning and although being priced comparatively cheaper to the major cloud players are not being very successful which is caused by both last of aggressive sales tactics oriented at the end customers as well as lack of unified service portfolio.
To name just few projects in the IaaS Data Storage area, we have identified projects in the table below:
| Project | Development Company | Used Blockchain | Payment Token |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIA | Nebulous, Inc. | Bitcoin | SC |
| Storj | Storj Labs, Inc. | Ethereum | STORJ |
| Filecoin | Protocol Labs | Filecoin | FIL |
| IAGON | Iagon AS | Ethereum | IAG |