In 2015, worldwide expenditure on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the cloud is forecast to rise to US$16.5 billion. This is the finding of a survey presented in Sydney last week by market research institute Gartner.
This constitutes a 32.8% increase compared to 2014. For the period 2014 to 2019, Gartner predicts average annual growth of 29.1%. Analysts are currently observing a concentration process, whereby IaaS offerings are becoming limited to just a few global providers, while many smaller providers are withdrawing from the market or restructuring their services. And this despite the fact that IaaS continues to be of interest to customers: According to Gartner’s 2015 CIO Agenda, 83% of CIOs said that IaaS could potentially be an option for their company; for 10%, it is already a standard infrastructure model.
IaaS is predominately used for development and testing, high-performance computing and batch processing, websites and web-based applications, as well as business-critical applications. Yet, more and more business-critical applications are also being moved to a public cloud.
Gartner’s survey on IaaS is available on its website, under the title “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Worldwide”, for US$1,995 (registration required). (Source: Gartner/rf)