Hyperscale public cloud providers have experienced growth rates exceeding 30% for the past few years, and their appetite for enterprise IT spend remains insatiable. Everest Group predicts hyperscalers—namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure—will seize more of enterprise IT spend as the cloud services market accelerates to 24% compound annual growth rate through 2024.
Read MoreThe worldwide public cloud services market, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), grew 26.0% year over year in 2019 with revenues totaling $233.4 billion, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker.
Read MoreThe 2020 Gartner, Inc. Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security features two technologies that will have transformational impact on global businesses within the next 10 years. Bring your own PC* (BYOPC) security will reach mainstream adoption in the next two to five years, while it will take five to 10 years for mainstream adoption of secure access service edge (SASE) to take place.
Read MoreThe worldwide public cloud services market, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), grew 26.0% year over year in 2019 with revenues totaling $233.4 billion. Spending continued to consolidate in 2019 with the combined revenue of the top 5 public cloud service providers capturing more than one third of the worldwide total and growing 35% year over year.
Read MoreA total of 59 percent of North American enterprises sourced their cloud services from hyperscalers in 2019, a sum that will rise to 65 percent in 2021, according to survey results from IHS Markit | Technology, now a part of Informa Tech.
Read MoreInternational Data Corporation (IDC) has published a new assessment profiling ten providers of managed cloud services worldwide. The IDC MarketScape report uses a comprehensive framework to assess the vendors relative to a set of criteria that explain success in the managed cloud services market and highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for success in both the short term and the long term. A significant component of this evaluation are the perceptions of buyers surveyed by IDC of both the key characteristics and the capabilities of these providers.
Read MoreMicrosoft in 2018 became the market share leader for total off-premises cloud service revenue with 13.8 percent share, bumping Amazon to the #2 spot with 13.2 percent; IBM was #3 with 8.8 percent revenue share, according to IHS Markit. Microsoft’s success can be attributed to its comprehensive portfolio and the growth it is experiencing from its more advanced PaaS and CaaS offerings.
Read MoreAs artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning deployments grow, cloud services are poised to benefit in a big way, according to a new report from IHS Markit.
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