Research says cloud computing will create 14 million jobs by 2015

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NetEase Science and technology news March 7, Microsoft released this week, commissioned by the IDC Cloud computing economic impact of the study, estimated that the last (2011) of the It cloud services to help all the world-wide industry, and all kinds of vertical areas to create 400 billion of dollars in revenue, It also brings 1.5 million of new jobs and estimates that 2015 years of cloud computing will create 13.8 million jobs.

Cloud computing can be broadly divided into a public cloud that uses Third-party resources to store data, to a private cloud where the enterprise delivers IT services with a virtual architecture. IDC points out that about 75% of the world's IT spending is related to maintaining the company's old systems and periodic updates, cloud computing will help enterprises reduce the burden, with the cloud, enterprises can reduce the cost of it and business processes, and to move funds to it or business investment; Enterprise's It expenditure usually only accounts for the 1~4% of enterprise revenue, With innovative it-driven revenue, it can significantly increase the rate of return on investment.

According to IDC estimates, by the year 2015, as the cloud brings the IT innovation will be able to achieve 1.1 trillion revenue, then the public and private cloud services will create 13.8 million jobs, more than half of the jobs in small and medium-sized enterprises, and banks, The communications and distributed manufacturing Industry (discretemanufacturing) will create more than 1 million jobs each, and most will appear in emerging markets such as China and India.

The logic of IDC is that it innovation brings enterprise innovation, which in turn increases business revenue, thus creating job opportunities. IDC also calculates the number of jobs lost or created by cloud computing, as well as the percentage of investment in cloud computing in different industries and the increased job shortages.

From the industry's point of view, the largest number of jobs due to cloud computing is the communications and media industry, by 2015 will be able to create 2.41 million job opportunities. The second is 1.42 million of the bank and 1.3 million of the distributed manufacturing sector. In the IDC analysis, the banking and communications industry is not particularly part of the early adopters of cloud computing, where a large number of job shortages come from the larger scale of the field and more investment in it.

From the regional point of view, 2015 in China and India due to cloud computing job opportunities will reach 6.7 million, the Asia-Pacific region is 2.87 million, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) 2.07 million, North America is 1.17 million.

IDC points out that cloud computing does not require the upfront cost of building a server on its own, and regardless of the size of the enterprise, developed or developed market can enjoy the benefits of cloud computing, the study focused only on the economic impact of the use of it cloud services, not the same can benefit from the cloud e government, Product development design, logistics or billing and other online services.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)