Prospect of UK ICT market: cloud computing prospects

Britain's ICT market is one of Europe's biggest markets. Britain spends as much as 140 billion pounds a year on ICT products, with the public sector spending 18 billion of pounds. The UK market is very popular with new technology and design, and consumers can quickly accept new technology products, which makes the UK market an excellent experimental trial for many ICT companies.

ICT technologies in the UK remain at the leading level in Europe, and the number of postgraduate students in ICT is the largest in western Europe. In addition, Britain's flexible labor laws and regulations can ensure that employment forms are adjusted according to the development of the enterprise, both to ensure the interests of employers and to enable employees to be treated fairly.

Software and it

The UK's software and IT services markets are in Europe's leading position, with a market size of £ 58 billion. According to Microsoft's independent research, the market will be able to accommodate 2,500 new businesses and create 78,200 jobs by 2013.

Britain's success is due mainly to two factors: the UK has become a melting pot of software development, attracting nearly 1 billion pounds of software research and development in multinational companies each year, and more than 100,000 professional software companies in the UK, and major software companies around the world, such as Microsoft, IBM and HP, are operating on a large scale in the UK.

Network security

The UK provides a broad space for the development of network security enterprises, including the following industries: Authentication, network authorization, trust identity management, system encryption, password analysis, computer security (large-scale protection against malware intrusion), privacy protection, information hiding, digital rights management and so on.

Although the actual loss caused by cybercrime is difficult to measure, a large number of recent studies have shown that cybercrime affects the UK economy by as much as £ 26.9 billion a year, with the highest proportion of the entire industrial cost. At present, the UK network security market is about 2.8 billion pounds. With the increasing public awareness of cyber threats and the continued development of such areas as connectivity services, the secure network market will continue to grow at a high rate in the future. Mobile phone security, is expected to become the next 2-3 years the largest market growth.

Cloud Services

By 2014, the UK cloud computing market is expected to rise from 2.4 billion pounds to £ 6.1 billion. Currently, 18% of British SMEs use cloud solutions, and 30% of SMEs plan to adopt cloud solutions next year. By 2015, 50% of the public sector's new IT services spending is expected to be spent on public cloud services.

Data center

The UK data center market is the largest market in Western Europe, and the volume of data and new services are increasing, such as cloud computing will create new demand. Gartner predicts that demand for host services and cloud services will increase from 21.2 billion pounds in 2008 to £ 70 billion in 2013.

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