Forecast for 2017: It’s gonna be Cloudy!
Cloud services are numbered at the top IT trends for upcoming years, next to Virtual Reality and Internet of Things. We have a large amount of cloud hosting providers, with Amazon (44%) at the top, followed by CloudFlare (32%), and Softlayer (4%). What are the prognosis of Cloud Hosting development?
$173B — this is the estimate for spending on public cloud Infrastructure as a Service hardware and software by 2026.
An increase of 15.5 percent on total spending on IT infrastructure products in cloud environments is predicted by the end of 2016, says International Data Corporation. “Overall, we will continue to see steady growth in demand for public cloud services and, as a result, underlying spending on IT infrastructure by CSPs” says Natalya Yezhkova, research director in IDC. She also mentioned that the most of that amount will be spend on-premises cloud environments. At the same time, non-cloud environments will trend lower in spending - but cloud infrastructure isn’t ready to overtake the market yet.
Source: CIO, Thor Olavsrud
28% — this is the worldwide cloud computing growth in 2015
$110B in revenues for cloud computing in 2015 sounds like great news for investors and hosters. Synergy Research Group has done a research that shows public IaaS/PaaS services managed to reach highest growth rate of 51%, giving private & hybrid cloud infrastructure services a second place at 45%. Furthermore, worldwide public IT Cloud Service revenue is predicted to be $127B by 2018.
Source: Forbes, Louis Columbus
71% — this is the average percent of hybrid cloud users.
Hybrid cloud adoption has grown as public cloud users added private clouds — shows RightScale report for 2016. The survey shows that private cloud adoption increased from 63 percent to 77 percent, driving hybrid cloud adoption up from 58 percent to 71 percent. The numbers are said to grow year by year.
Source: RightScale, Kim Weins
6 — this is the number of clouds, that users leverage on.
Companies using cloud are leveraging 3 public clouds and 3 private clouds — says RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Survey, showing also, that more and more enterprise workloads shift to cloud usage, especially private cloud. What holds us back the most, when it comes to cloud implementation? Lack of resources/expertise and poor security are the most common reasons ranked in the research.
Source: RightScale, Kim Weins
25% — this is the percentage of SaaS deployment over traditional software.
Another IDC research shows that by 2020 traditional, packaged software will lower down by 10% in new enterprise installations. SaaS and PaaS are said to grow in popularity, and market for that kind of services is predicted to reach a CAGR of 20.9% by 2020. This is good news for our e-commerce White Label solution, and we hope that the forecast will deliver.
Source: Forbes, Louis Columbus
