IDC estimates: Public cloud services will continue to grow over the next 5 years

IDC, an internationally renowned IT industry research firm, estimates that global IT spending will jump to $72.9 billion trillion over the next 5 years, with 46% coming from http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13671.html "> Public cloud Services."

According to IDC estimates, the net spending on public it cloud services will continue to grow at a rate of 27.6% per year over the next 5 years. It is expected that net spending on it public cloud services will reach $21.5 billion trillion by the end of this year. The main area of growth will be in the United States, and the popularity and speed of other areas will grow in varying degrees. Especially in the Asia-Pacific and Europe, the number of cloud service providers and end-user expenditure, growth rate will exceed expectations.

IDC also points out that public cloud services will interact with and progress with other IT technologies, such as mobile interconnect technology, wireless communication technology, massive data analysis and social networking sites. The future growth of public cloud services will focus on the following products: applications, application development and popularization, system infrastructure software, basic storage, and servers. Where applications, application development and popularization, system infrastructure software are part of the software and Services (SaaS) category, the growth of the rest of the services will come mainly from the corresponding support required by the SaaS provider.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)