The US remains the largest market for data centers, which in terms of more than six times ahead of China, according to a study conducted by analysts Synergy Research Group.

According to their estimates for the fourth quarter of 2015, in the United States it is 46% of data centers, which posted the largest cloud and internet services. The share of China is 7%. Japan Indicators, Australia, Singapore and Germany are equal to 6%, 5%, 4% and 4%, respectively.

The report also featured Brazil, India, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland and Hong Kong, which are among the leaders in the placement of the data center, where the leading cloud service providers and online companies store and process personal data of its customers. Information on the Russian market in Synergy Research does not lead.

During the study, the experts took into consideration 17 of the world's largest companies providing cloud and internet services. Among them - distributors IaaS solutions, PaaS, and SaaS (Oracle, Salesforce, Google, etc.. ), Social networks (eg, with Facebook), and e-commerce, market participants (eBay, Alibaba, Tencent, etc..

All companies studied Synergy Research, have a total of 230 data points. Each company has an average of 14 sites.

The largest network of data centers have deployed cloud providers gipermasshtabiruemyh Amazon Web Services solutions, IBM and Microsoft. Each of them has at least 40 data centers, which are located in at least two of the four major regions: North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), Latin America and Asia-Pacific. In addition, the widespread presence in the world has a Google data center network, Oracle and Rackspace.

The remaining data centers are concentrated mainly in the United States or (y such as Salesforce, Facebook, eBay and Yahoo), or China (Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba).

Analysts say that in the past the majority of Alibaba date is located in the Celestial Empire, and now they can also be found in the United States, Hong Kong and Singapore.

"The explosive growth in the use of clouds is a global phenomenon, so it is noteworthy that the US share continues to account for nearly half of the largest data centers, but it is a reflection of the dominant position of American cloud and Internet technologies", - analyst and research director at Synergy Research John Dinsdale (John Dinsdale).