Enterprise cloud spending to hit $235B by 2017: IHS
Summary:
Expenditure cloud architecture and services will jump by 35 percent from
the US$174 billion expected for this year, according to IHS.
Architecture and services by 2017 — a 35 percent gain from the US$174
billion projected to be spent this year.
“Enterprises today are trying to create faster, more efficient I.T.
environments to ensure more responsive, agile and successful
businesses,” said Jagdish Rebello, senior director for information
technology at IHS. "In these cloud-based settings, enterprises also want
to integrate the deep analytical power of big data, which will give
them competitive advantages through insights about present and
prospective customers."
This
year alone, cloud spending is pegged to rise 20 percent from US$145
billion last year, as shown in the attached figure. (source: IHS)
Enterprises are simultaneously augmenting their on-site services and
capabilities with the cloud and gradually transferring those functions
to online competencies, noted IHS.
The main focus for many
companies is developing initially limited sets of new apps and services
that will live only in the cloud before the new offerings skyrocket in
terms of adoption, according to Rebello.
Just last month, Cisco pledged to spend over US$1 billion entering the cloud computing market
in order to offer corporate clients the same services as rival firms.
This came just weeks after IBM announced it was planning to spend a similar sum on software and services — a very large chunk of which was to go on its SoftLayer Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering.
Cloud adoption among Indian SMBs to soar
Summary:
Number of small and midsize businesses heading toward cloud services is
expected to climb 20 percent between 2012 and 2016, as the workforce
drops in age and more Indian companies embrace technology.
More small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in India are heading
toward cloud services as the workforce drops in age and companies
increasingly turn to technology.
According to a report by EY and Assocham, the number of Indian SMBs
adopting cloud computing is expected to climb at a compound annual
growth rate (CAGR) of 20 percent between 2012 and 2016, reported The Times of India.
Smaller enterprises in the country were beginning to embrace technology
as a business driver, but adoption had remained low compared to other
nations with larger SMBs.
The report noted: "SMBs will play a leading role in the adoption of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud
(SMAC) in India, given the huge opportunity it opens up, not only to
grow revenues by increased marketing to new customers, but also by
bringing in operational efficiency and customer experience.
It
added that demand for cloud services by these companies was particularly
high in the areas of disaster recovery, remote database management, and
e-mail hosting.
SMBs account for 45 percent of India's total manufacturing output and
hire some 40 percent of its workforce. This market segment is expected
to increase its contribution to the country's GDP to 22 percent in 2020,
up from 17 percent in 2011.
The report further stated that the rise of India's young middle
class, as well as increasing adoption of technology and social media,
provide new opportunities for SMBs to outpace other market players.
"Indian SMBs finds themselves in a unique position to exploit these
[SMAC] forces. Intelligently and cohesively exploited these technologies
will transform the way they compete with their larger competitors,"
Samiron Ghoshal, a partner and leader of IT advisory services at EY,
said in the report.
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