Cloud Computing Growing Faster Than Expected, Reached $260 Billion in 2017

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Cloud Computing Growing Faster Than Expected, Reached $260 Billion in 2017

By CircleID Reporter
October 13, 2017, 6:26 pm PDT Views: 14,600 Add Comment

The global public cloud services market revenue is expetec to grow by 18.5 percent in 2017 reaching $260.2 billion, up from $219.6 billion in 2016, according to the latest report from Gartner, Inc. From the report: “Final data for 2016 shows that software as a service (SaaS) revenue was far greater in 2016 than expected, reaching $48.2 billion. SaaS is also growing faster in 2017 than previously forecast, leading to a significant uplift in the entire public cloud revenue forecast. ... SaaS revenue is expected to grow 21 percent in 2017 to reach $58.6 billion… The acceleration in SaaS adoption can be explained by providers delivering nearly all application functional extensions and add-ons as a service. ... The highest revenue growth will come from cloud system infrastructure services (infrastructure as a service, IaaS), which is projected to grow 36.6 percent in 2017 to reach $34.7 billion.”

Worldwide Public Cloud Services Revenue Forecast:
(Billions of U.S. Dollars / Source: Gartner – October 2017)

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Cloud Business Process Services (BPaaS)	39.6	42.2	45.8	49.5	53.6
Cloud Application Infrastructure Services (PaaS)	9.0	11.4	14.2	17.3	20.8
Cloud Application Services (SaaS)	48.2	58.6	71.2	84.8	99.7
Cloud Management and Security Services	7.1	8.7	10.3	12.0	13.9
Cloud System Infrastructure Services (IaaS)	25.4	34.7	45.8	58.4	72.4
Cloud Advertising	90.3	104.5	118.5	133.6	151.1
Total Market	219.6	260.2	305.8	355.6	411.4

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