PRAGUE / FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 20, 2015 – According to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker , total cloud IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and ethernet switch) grew by 14.4% year over year to $8.0 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14), accounting for approximately 30% of all IT infrastructure spend, up from about 27% one year ago. Private cloud infrastructure spending grew by 18.3% year over year to $2.9 billion, while public cloud infrastructure spending grew to $5.0 billion, 12.3% higher than one year ago. (TZ)
For the full year 2014, cloud IT infrastructure spending totaled $26.4 billion, up 18.7% year over year from $22.3 billion; private cloud spending was just under $10.0 billion, up 20.7% year over year, while public cloud spending was $16.5 billion, up 17.5% year over year.
„The transition to cloud-oriented infrastructure and data platform architectures within enterprises‘ datacenters continues to accelerate, yet the expansion of public cloud infrastructure in service providers‘ datacenters around the world is an even larger driver of IT spending,“ observed Richard Villars, Vice President, Datacenter and Cloud research at IDC. „A key driver of this acceleration is organizations‘ development and use of new Internet of Things services that require levels of agility and scale that only cloud solutions can deliver.“
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