Gartner: Cloud computing will severely depress traditional hardware and software sales

Companies are growing much faster in cloud computing spending than overall IT spending, creating a huge challenge for traditional hardware and software vendors, said Ed Anderson, Gartner's cloud computing analyst.

According to Anderson's latest study, cloud computing was expected to grow by 19% in 2012, with the market expanding to $91 billion a year on a year-on-year scale of $109 billion. By 2016, the cloud computing market will reach $207 billion trillion. In 2012, the global IT market grew only 3%. While the 109 billion dollar cloud market accounts for only 3.6 trillion of the global IT market of 3%, Anderson believes that the growth of cloud computing is still commendable, in part because of the slowing trend in the growth of traditional boxed hardware and software sales.

Software delivery is moving from traditional license sales to cloud-based http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8759.html ">saas mode." At the same time, hardware sales are moving from a local capital expenditure model to a non-local operating expense model.

In the long run, Anderson argues, cloud models will create new IT spending opportunities. Cloud adoption patterns such as integration, customization, hybrid cloud and local cloud installation will continue to grow.

In its latest quarterly it expense report, Gartner first presented the cloud computing bill as a predictive project, making an in-depth analysis of current and future trends in cloud computing spending. Next year, the hottest cloud market growth area will be IaaS, which is expected to increase by 41%. Second is management and security, which is expected to grow by 27.2%, then PAAs (26.6%), SaaS (17.4%), and business process as a service (15%). "The growth of the cloud market will be fairly rapid," Anderson said. Although cloud services account for a small fraction of overall IT spending, the growth momentum is considerable. ”

Meanwhile, sales of computing hardware are expected to increase by only 3.4% this year to $420 billion trillion, compared with an increase of 7.4% last year. Enterprise-class software, which grew 9.8% per cent last year, is expected to grow only 4.3% this year, to $281 billion trillion.

Anderson's prediction model for cloud development trends can be seen in the market. Some emerging e-commerce sites, such as Coupa, have not built their own infrastructure to put the entire company's business in the Amazon Service (AWS) cloud. Other companies are embracing cloud computing in a number of radical ways.

For example, the GFI software company, which provides a wide range of IT service management software, including infrastructure, security, and messaging services, recently announced a plan to move all its software products to a cloud-based SaaS delivery model. "Customers need to be simplistic, and cloud is the easiest way to deliver software services," said Walter Scott, the company's CEO. "For customers, cloud delivery is a faster deployment model and easier to manage." Cloud based GFI will be able to automatically install security patches or other updates to all of its application customers through a central node.

But Scott says the model is still in transition and not all customers are ready to accept cloud computing entirely. Many European companies are apparently slower to adopt cloud models than American companies. GFI will continue to provide local installation, and in order to achieve the transition, will be the company's 10 applications to take cloud hosting mode to provide customers.

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