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Cloud Computing: IaaS is Transforming the IT Value Chain
Enterprises are beginning to accept and adopt public cloud services. A report by IDC finds that businesses are beginning to standardize their IT infrastructure using public cloud IaaS services. IDC estimates that public IaaS revenues were $12.6 billion in 2015 and will increase to $43.6 billion by 2020. In 2015 the IaaS sector grew by 51 percent and is expected to grow by 41 percent both this year and again in 2017. A survey of 6000 IT organizations found that two-thirds of them are already or planning to use IaaS by the end of 2016. IDC identifies Amazon as by far the leading IaaS vendor.
Deepak Mohan, research director at IDC, said that “public cloud services are increasingly being seen as an enabler of business agility and speed. This is bringing about a shift in IT infrastructure spending, with implications for the incumbent leaders in enterprise infrastructure technologies. Growth of public cloud IaaS has also created new service opportunities around adoption and usage of public cloud resources. With changes at the infrastructure, architectural, and operational layers, public cloud IaaS is slowly transforming the enterprise IT value chain.”
The IDC report notes that regulatory and data sovereignty demands will drive the emergence of regional cloud providers that are likely to be based on OpenStack.
The popularity of IaaS can be attributed to at least these three factors:
- Minimizes network downtime
- Saves on application update time
- Scales easily and helps businesses avoid making large investments in new hardware when capacity requirements increase
