Facts about cloud computing
PSC continues to be a driver of market growth of cloud services: in 2011 U.S. SMBs consume cloud services to 25% more than in 2010, bringing the market to $ 15.1 billion; The global market for cloud services will grow by 26% (CAGR) to $ 34 billion in 2011 to $ 68 billion by 2014; In 2011, the PSC spent $ 14 billion in the hosting infrastructure (IaaS - virtual and dedicated servers, virtual machines rental), $ 7 billion - for services to ensure the presence on the network Internet (web presence - domains, sites, SSL, widgets for online stores), $ 4 billion - for services of communication and collaboration (email, email security and archiving, rental of telephone exchanges, including PBX and VoIP); $ 9 billion - for business applications (SaaS - content management systems, file sharing, accounting, recovery and backup, CRM, HR, payroll); 75% of companies with fewer than twenty employees now rent their IT infrastructure, and do not support its own; SMBs consume much more than just services to ensure the presence on the Internet (web-presence): 45% of SMBs in the U.S. use the pages on Facebook to promote your business. This is a signal service providers to be included in the package of web presence of vertical cloud services, such as the presence in social media, content management and customer relationship management (CRM); Over the next three years, SMBs plan to double the intake of fee-based cloud applications. The structure of demand for applications will vary depending on company size: micro and small companies interested in backup applications, file sharing, accounting and archiving of email, while medium-sized enterprises need, for example, more than the services of telephone conferences. According to experts, volume of services based on the "cloud" solutions will grow in other segments of the market. For example, according to a recently published study from Cisco, which is contained within the forecast of the world's mobile traffic for 2011-2016, noted that due to the fact that users of mobile communications services are increasingly a demand for content "on demand", the amount of "cloud" of traffic transmitted over mobile networks, will increase by 2016 by 28 times, and the average annual growth rate of 95%.Useful links
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