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Cloud Computing: Cloud Spending Outpaces Traditional On-Premise Spending
The cloud is growing at the expense of traditional on-premise environments, according to a new report from IDC. Spending on cloud infrastructure is expected to jump 18.9 percent in 2016, compared to a 4 percent decline in spending on traditional non-cloud environment spending.
Kuba Stolarski, an analyst at IDC, said that “the cloud IT infrastructure market continues to see strong double-digit growth with faster gains coming from public cloud infrastructure demand. End customers are modernising their infrastructures along specific workloads, performance and TCO requirements, with a general tendency to move into 3rd Platform, next-gen technologies.”
Natalya Yezhkova, IDC research director of storage systems, said that “for the majority of corporate and public organisations, IT is not a core business but rather an enabler for their core businesses and operations. Expansion of cloud offerings creates opportunities for these businesses to focus efforts on core competences while leveraging the flexibility of service-based IT.”
The top five cloud infrastructure providers by revenue in 2015, as ranked by IDC are: HPE, Dell, Cisco, EMC, and IBM and NetApp in joint fifth place.