1. Pay close attention
Cloud computing’s rise in popularity has been well documented by technology
companies and governments alike. It’s important that the data be examined, especially
by local governments, because it indicates an overwhelming acceptance of cloud
services, driven heavily by employees’ personal use of the technology.
INFORMATION
GROWTH
84
% OF CIOs WHO CUT
180 BILLION
APPLICATION
COSTS BY MOVING
ESTIMATED GLOBAL
TO THE CLOUD
CLOUD SERVICES
MARKET BY 2015
PEOPLE
TREND
6 OUT OF 10
73%
CIOs INDICATE
CLOUD COMPUTING
IT STAFF WHO SAY
EMPLOYEES’ PERSONAL
USE OF THE
IS TOP PRIORITY
CLOUD
SAVINGS
21
INFLUENCED ENTERPRISE ADOPTION
OF CLOUD COMPUTING
% ANNUAL
SAVINGS
BUDGETS
OF USERS WHO MOVED
APPS TO THE
ANNUAL IT SPEND
CLOUD
IN 2013
1/3
…AS A SERVICE
EXPECTED 2013 GROWTH
GLOBAL IaaS
MARKET
60%
SERVER WORKLOADS THAT
WILL BE VIRTUALIZED IN 2013
9 BILLION/47.3%
10
DEDICATED SERVERS ON THE DECLINE
9
RANDOM THOUGHTS
8
7
6
5
WHEN YOU WANT
SOMETHING YOU’VE
NEVER HAD,
4
3
YOU HAVE TO DO
SOMETHING
YOU’VE NEVER DONE.
2
1
2010
2011
2012
131
BILLION WORLDWIDE
FORECASTED GROWTH IN 2013
"The continued growth of the cloud services market will result from the adoption
of cloud services for production systems and workloads, in addition to the
development and testing scenarios that have led as the most prominent use case
for public cloud services to date," said Ed Anderson, research director at
Gartner. "Evidence of this growth is found in the increasing demand for cloud
services from end-user organizations, met by an increased supply of cloud
services from suppliers."
DON’T FORGET TO
ASK YOUR CLIENTS:
“WHAT IS YOUR
CLOUD FOCUS
FOR 2014?”
Gartner predicts that the top three most sought-after cloud services
moving forward will remain email security, web security services and
identity and access management (IAM). However, in 2013 and 2014,
the highest growth is forecast to occur in cloud-based tokenization and
encryption, security information and event management (SIEM),
vulnerability assessment and web application firewalls.
Sources
http://www.statetechmagazine.com/article/2013/09/13-cloud-computing-stats-cios
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/gartner-tells-outsourcers-embrace-cloud-or-die/d/d-id/1110991?
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2352816
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vala-afshar/the-top-100-cloud-computi_b_3756172.html
http://www.cdwnewsroom.com/2013-state-of-the-cloud-report/
http://www.cloudhypermarket.com/whatiscloud/CloudUptake
http://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-its-not-easy-to-be-a-cio-2012-2
2013
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