{"id":3295,"date":"2012-10-17T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2012-10-17T07:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:00:41","slug":"cloud-computing-cloud-growth-numbers-revised-upwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-cloud-growth-numbers-revised-upwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Cloud Growth Numbers Revised Upwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Growth of public cloud computing services is exceeding even earlier rosy predictions. <a title=\"Public Cloud services\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/it\/page.jsp?id=2163616\" target=\"_blank\"> Gartner now says<\/a> that computing services will grow by as much as 19.6 percent his year, reaching $109 billion. \u00a0This compares to another recent competing analyst study from <a title=\"IDC cloud study\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23684912\" target=\"_blank\">IDC <\/a>that estimates the public cloud market to reach $100 billion by 2016. \u00a0 Among the individual public cloud computing\u00a0segments, the fastest growing is infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which is expected to grows by as much as 45.4 percent this year and is on target to reach $6.2 billion.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Software as a Service (SaaS) is expected to grow to $14.4 billion. \u00a0But the biggest piece of the public cloud computing market is something that Gartner is calling <em>Business processes as a Service<\/em> (BPaaS) which accounts for 77 percent of the total public cloud market size or $84.2 billion. \u00a0Cloud advertising is included as part of BPaaS which accounts for chunk of the BPaaS number.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Ratmir Timashev bio\" href=\"www.linkedin.com\/pub\/ratmir-timahsev\/0\/a04\/353\" target=\"_blank\">Ratmir Timashev<\/a>, \u00a0president of\u00a0Veeam Software&#8217;s,\u00a0told <a title=\"ChannelWeb and CRN story on cloud growth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.channelweb.co.uk\/crn-uk\/news\/2206345\/idc-and-gartner-squabble-over-cloud-market-size#ixzz276Kaoa2C \" target=\"_blank\">CRN <\/a>that &#8220;we do not see the evolution of the cloud slowing down any time soon and expect this management and security growth to continue over the next several years. \u00a0As the cloud grows to a mammoth scale, cloud management and security services will naturally grow to match.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"IDC Frank Gens bio\" href=\"www.linkedin.com\/pub\/frank-gens\/1\/3\/988\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Gens<\/a>, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC, <a title=\"Frank Gens quote on growth of cloud ervices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23684912\" target=\"_blank\">said <\/a>that\u00a0&#8220;The IT industry is in the midst of an important transformative period as companies invest in the technologies that will drive growth and innovation over the next 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