Parallels investigate potential business opportunities in the cloud services market

November 27, parallels issued a parallelssmbcloudinsights important report for China. The market report provides a detailed account of the growth of the cloud services market in the region and the revenue generation of cloud service providers in small and medium enterprises (SMBs) each year. The growth in Chinese business and the spread of Internet coverage have prompted more small and medium-sized enterprises to set foot in the cloud services market, with a 54% per cent rise in the cloud services market for small and medium-sized enterprises in the past year alone, according to the report.

The report predicts that the market value of China's small and medium-sized enterprises cloud services will reach 16.7 billion yuan in 2013 years-a 54% per cent increase from the 10.8 billion yuan in 2012. Parallels is convinced that the rapid growth of China's SMB cloud services market stems from existing users and new consumers of cloud services, who are expanding their use of services such as communications, collaboration, and business applications, which are basically grouped into four categories: infrastructure as services (IaaS), Web and Web applications, managed communications and collaboration, and online business applications (also known as software as Services or SaaS).

"Parallelssmbcloudinsights?" the report affirms China's growing demand for cloud services. "With the rapid development of China's economy and the expansion of Internet coverage, the demand for small and medium-sized enterprises to shift from traditional host to cloud services is becoming more and more obvious," said Mr. Daviddzienciol, vice president and general manager of Parallels Asia Pacific. Coupled with the geographical advantages of the Asia-Pacific region and North America, China has gradually become a vital market for us, and we also hope that more small and medium-sized enterprises in China will enjoy the benefits of cloud services. "

Parallels predicts that in China's small and medium enterprises cloud services market, which has a total value of 16.7 billion yuan, IaaS will contribute RMB 5.9 billion, Web sites and Web applications contribute 1.9 billion RMB, and managed communications and collaboration (including hosted Advanced Mail and managed PBX) will occupy 1.8 billion RMB, Commercial applications are the remaining source of up to 7.1 billion yuan.

Parallelssmbcloudinsights? The third section highlights the various types of cloud services and applications that are most popular with China's small and medium enterprises within 2013 years:

Infrastructure as a service: 5% of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises now use hosted servers, up 31% from last year. The main driving factor is the gradual expansion of the use of managed servers by microenterprises (small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 10 employees).

Web sites and Web applications: China's web market has grown 59% since 2012. The main source of growth was the micro-enterprises (small and medium enterprises with fewer than 10 employees) who created their first web site, and of course the micro-and small businesses that turned themselves into third-party hosting sites.

Managed Communications and collaboration: The cost of managed advanced mail and hosted PBXs is now nearly approaching the cost of the site, which now has a market value of 1.8 billion yuan (about 293 million US dollars). At present, only 5% of small and medium-sized enterprises to invest in hosted advanced Mail, 7% of the purchase of managed PBX, which indicates that the focus on communications and collaboration in the field of service providers have a very large space for development.

-Managed advanced mail: For advanced Mail hosted, its market growth impetus is mainly from two groups: (1) Upgrading from free mail accounts to small and medium-sized enterprises hosting advanced Mail, and (2) small and medium-sized enterprises that move from internal servers to managed advanced mail.

-Managed PBX applications: similar to other categories, the PBX continues to grow as one of the main cloud services. Only 7% of small and medium-sized enterprises in China currently use managed PBX services.

Business applications: Market value of 7.1 billion yuan (about 1.1 billion U.S. dollars), business applications are China's small and medium-sized enterprises cloud services investment in one of the largest projects, last year, a 66% increase.

"Our customers face numerous it challenges in today's business environment, so when choosing critical applications, they consider the most affordable and least technical support solutions." Pachosting Business Solutions analyst Nataliekong said, "Parallels has a wealth of global expertise and a keen regional market insight, it will always be our most valuable partner, and I believe it will continue to help us push our business to a new level." "

According to China's national conditions, the rapid growth of China's business and the increase in Internet penetration, the report concluded that small and medium-sized enterprises will embrace all kinds of cloud services, and will gradually expand their use. This will no doubt help push China's small and medium enterprises cloud services market to a deeper direction, with a total value of 33.6 billion yuan (about $5.4 billion trillion) by 2016.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)