{"id":20616,"date":"2016-02-17T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/feb\/17\/wikibon-research-argues-true-private-cloud-market-smaller-aws-share\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T11:25:10","slug":"wikibon-research-argues-true-private-cloud-market-is-smaller-than-aws-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wikibon-research-argues-true-private-cloud-market-is-smaller-than-aws-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikibon research argues \u2018true\u2019 private cloud market is smaller than AWS share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/-MG-<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Organisations are starting to conflate the private and public clouds &ndash; yet new research from Wikibon finds the market size of &lsquo;true&rsquo; private cloud implementations is lower than the revenues of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading public infrastructure as a service player.<\/p>\n<p>Wikibon&rsquo;s research aims to clarify private cloud and differentiate between solutions marketed by vendors and implementations by businesses. The research body assesses the true private cloud at $7 billion (&pound;4.9bn), lower than AWS at $7.9bn and significantly lower than the overall IaaS public cloud market of $25bn in 2015. The analysis argues the private cloud market will in time be of a similar level to the traditional on-premises IT market as the latter drops in size.<\/p>\n<p>According to the analysis, the top four companies in the private cloud base are HP Enterprise, Oracle, VMware, and EMC, with IBM, NetApp and Cisco trailing.<\/p>\n<p>The author of the piece, Brian Gracely, assesses several reasons why private cloud has not kept up with the growth of public cloud:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virtualisation is not cloud: Wikibon argues the capabilities of virtualisation are now mature, and the need for it is slowing<\/li>\n<li>Cloud management is not a high priority IT focus: it is very difficult to be a standalone cloud management software business, according to the researchers<\/li>\n<li>Do business apps need a private cloud? The ownership of SaaS applications is often managed outside the core IT teams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&rsquo;s nothing new, but the changing focus on private cloud means providers are looking at products which offer the benefits of both. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/aug\/20\/centurylink-launches-new-private-cloud-aims-public-cloud-capability\/\">CenturyLink&rsquo;s launch in 2014<\/a> aimed to offer the agility of a public cloud with the security of a private cloud, while earlier this month <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/feb\/12\/rackspace-launches-private-cloud-red-hat-openstack-help\/\">Rackspace&rsquo;s announcement attempted to do similarly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research also examined the highest paying tech skills, with HANA ahead of database Cassandra, Cloudera, platform as a service in general and OpenStack. A piece from Firebrand Training <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/feb\/16\/top-five-demand-cloud-skills-2016\/\">featured in this publication earlier this week<\/a> argued database, Linux, and security as among the most in-demand cloud skills for 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/-MG-<br \/>\nOrganisations are starting to conflate the private and public clouds &ndash; yet new research from Wikibon finds the market size of &lsquo;true&rsquo; private cloud implementations is lower than the revenues of Amazon Web Services (A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22814,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20616\/revisions\/22814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}