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Cloud Computing: Private Clouds On Rapid Growth Path
The sales of servers for cloud computing is expected to reach $12.6 billion by 2014. That’s the forecast of IDC in a new report.
But what’s interesting is the mix of numbers between servers used in public clouds and those used for private clouds. Much of the discussion around cloud computing focuses on what companies like Amazon and Google are doing perhaps because the public cloud drives much of the innovation behind cloud computing. But the IDC numbers show that less than a tenth of the money spent on cloud servers are for ones used in public clouds. So, from the IDC perspective, the universe of cloud computing is really dominated by the private cloud.
In 2014, IDC forecasts that $718 million will be spent on public cloud servers, while $11.8 billion will be spent on private cloud servers.
Not only is the public cloud market size smaller, it is growing at a slower rate than private clouds. Much of the difference has to do with the perception of security and risk involved with hosting data on the public cloud. 60 percent of users have said that they wouldn’t trust putting their private data in the cloud.
IDC defines a public cloud as one “open to a largely unrestricted universe of potential users; designed for a market, not for a single enterprise.” And they define a private cloud as one “designed for, and access restricted to, a single enterprise (or extended enterprise); an internal shared resource, not a commercial offering; IT organization as ‘vendor’ of a shared/standard service to its users.”
