Virtualisation and connectivity have allowed a rebirth of hosted solutions. Today’s incarnation – cloud services – seek to provide large enterprises as well as small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with scalable, affordable and secure access to applications and infrastructure over public or private networks.
Lack of IT staff, high-cost IT resources, consumer adoption of social networking hosted solutions, a move towards simplified enterprise network environments, remote working, mobility and capital limitations are driving the technology industry towards cloud services. However, traditional channels to market and legacy vendors in the space provide large barriers to adoption for cloud solutions.
This report presents a five-year worldwide enterprise cloud services forecast by channel to market. This approach allows communications service providers (CSPs) and vendors to understand their unique positioning in the market and plan for future growth in the eight regions of the world.
Enterprise cloud services: worldwide forecast 2010–2015 answers your key questions:
- What is the global opportunity for cloud services for CSPs, vendors and registered IT partners?
- What is the large enterprise versus SME opportunity for cloud services?
- What is the opportunity for cloud services in developed Asia–Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Latin America, emerging Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, North America and Western Europe?
- Which key technology areas – applications and infrastructure – are leading the way into cloud services?
- Which application and infrastructure vendors are thought-leaders for cloud services?
- What are the market drivers for cloud services?