{"id":30398,"date":"2017-07-07T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T10:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2017\/jul\/07\/public-cloud-infrastructure-spending-continues-rise-says-idc\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T10:39:26","slug":"public-cloud-infrastructure-spending-continues-to-rise-says-idc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/public-cloud-infrastructure-spending-continues-to-rise-says-idc\/","title":{"rendered":"Public cloud infrastructure spending continues to rise, says IDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/iStock-537532240.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Public cloud services will be the fastest growing market segment for IT deployment in 2017, according to the latest note from IDC.<\/p>\n<p>Spending on traditional data centres, which ranked at more than 60% of the market in 2016, will dip to less than half by 2021, the analyst firm argues, with public cloud taking the majority of the slack.<\/p>\n<p>Total spending on IT infrastructure for deployment in cloud environments &ndash; server, enterprise storage and Ethernet switches &ndash; will reach $40 billion (&pound;31.1bn) in 2017, at an increase of 12.4% year over year. Public cloud will grow at the fastest rate, of 13.8%, with off-premises private cloud environments at 11.9% growth and on-prem private clouds growing 9.6% year on year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/accounts.icharts.net\/icharts\/embed\/MHzTyi5G\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"615\" height=\"512\"><\/iframe> <a href=\"http:\/\/chartchannel.icharts.net\/chartchannel\/worldwide-cloud-it-infrastructure-market-forecast-deployment-type-2015-2021-shares-0\">iCharts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For cloud IT environments, Ethernet switches will represent the fastest growing segment, with 25.8% year on year growth in 2017, with spending on enterprise storage at 12.0% and servers 9.1%.<\/p>\n<p>IDC had previously examined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2017\/jul\/03\/global-cloud-it-infrastructure-revenues-hit-8-billion-q117-says-idc\/\">numbers by vendor<\/a>, finding Dell and HPE just ahead of the faster-growing Cisco, and saying global cloud IT infrastructure revenues hitting $8 billion in the first quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Natalya Yezhkova, IDC enterprise storage research director, said spending will continue on 2016 trends in general, not counting differences in specific technology segments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Enterprise adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud IT strategies and the proliferation of cloud-native applications and areas such as the Internet of Things, which embrace a cloud-first approach to supporting IT resources, will fuel further increases in end-user spending on services-based IT.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In turn, this move will be reflected in a shift of the overall spending on IT infrastructure from on-premises to off-premises deployments and from traditional IT to cloud IT,&rdquo; Yezhkova added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public cloud services will be the fastest growing market segment for IT deployment in 2017, according to the latest note from IDC.<br \/>\nSpending on traditional data centres, which ranked at more than 60% of the market in 2016, will dip to less than half by &#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-30398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30398","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=30398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30399,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30398\/revisions\/30399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}