{"id":10522,"date":"2014-04-08T10:13:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T10:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2014\/apr\/08\/why-cloud-services-spending-will-exceed-174b-in-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-04-08T10:13:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T10:13:49","slug":"why-cloud-services-spending-will-exceed-174bn-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-cloud-services-spending-will-exceed-174bn-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Why cloud services spending will exceed $174bn in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CEOs of leading companies are already striving to create an agile business model – one that responds quickly to competitive pressures and shifting market demands. Commercial agility often requires a corresponding accelerated business technology deployment. Meaning, the IT requirement is for applications to be provisioned in hours – not weeks or months.<\/p>\n

That’s a tall order for many corporate IT departments. Regardless, it must be done. More often than not, it’s accomplished via a cloud services-based methodology.<\/p>\n

Savvy executives that proactively migrate their IT infrastructure to a cloud-centric architecture will generate new revenue that could surge by a factor of three from 2011 to 2017, according to the latest market study by IHS. <\/p>\n

Global business spending for infrastructure and services related to the cloud will reach an estimated $174.2 billion this year – that’s up by 20 percent from $145.2 billion in 2013. By 2017, enterprise spending …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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