How Cloud-First Strategies are Driving Public Service Adoption

More enterprises are adopting a cloud-first strategy, taking advantage of the speed and agility of cloud computing for infrastructure, platforms and application services. Some nations now have a national movement. Many South Korean companies have a public cloud-first strategy.

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Public Cloud Service Revenue will Reach $141B in 2019

The overall public cloud computing service provider market will likely experience a period of ongoing consolidation in 2016, as more vendors choose to exit the sector. Others will continue to develop their existing market niche and thereby focus more on meaningful value-added options, rather than the lowest price.

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Growing Public Cloud Apps in the Middle East and North Africa

The public cloud computing market is maturing, across the globe. Public cloud services in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is forecast to grow by 19.3 percent in 2016 to reach a total of $ 880 million — that’s up from an estimated $737 million in 2015, according to Gartner.

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Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Computing Trends for 2016

Mainstream enterprise IT is moving significant processing to the cloud with 85.9 percent of web content management, 82.7 percent of communications, 80 percent of app development and 78.9 percent of disaster recovery now cloud-based.

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Hosted Private Cloud Market will Reach $39 Billion in 2019

The leading public cloud computing service providers will gain the lion’s share of all cloud-related revenue, but there are still market development opportunities for hybrid scenarios — where combinations of public and private cloud can be justified.

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Asia-Pacific and North America Lead the Cloud IT Market

According to the latest IDC market study, vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (i.e. server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 25.7 percent year-over-year to $6.9 billion in the second quarter of 2015.

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Cloud Computing Adoption has Accelerated Outsourcing Decline

The continued deceleration of IT outsourcing services revenue growth is attributed to clients shifting from traditional IT services to “as a Service” cloud computing models, causing information technology outsourcing (ITO) to decline by 4.7% year-to-year in 2Q15.

Source: TBR

Cloud Disrupts Legacy Linear Thinking about Business IT

Here’s why it’s simply easier, and more enabling for the business, to leapfrog multiple stages of IT change to an entirely new state of competitive capabilities via cloud computing — without losing the necessary IT functionality, inter-connectivity, or data.

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Public Cloud Service Revenue will Reach $113 Billion in 2018

The public cloud computing sector continues to thrive, as more enterprise CIOs seek sustainable ways to free themselves from the burden of updating the inflexible high-cost proprietary software platforms in their own data center.

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Public Cloud Computing Cost Comparisons Drive Growth

While it’s true that cloud computing infrastructure is often primarily deployed to enable an IT organization achieve a business agility goal, there’s always the expectation that an operating cost reduction will also be the outcome — as a direct result of cloud service adoption.

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