20 statistics on cloud computing

In the current data explosion, CIOs face various data storage challenges: security issues, access at any time, and costs. Enterprises can choose to purchase and deploy local enterprise-class storage systems, or they can store data through external cloud computing services. Or you can store data through a hybrid cloud of local private clouds and external public clouds.

In this article, we will focus on cloud computing. The following statistics are needed for each CIO to be printed, because these will be the strong figures behind the CIO's participation in cloud computing decisions. Let's take a look at these data.

1. As of 2015, end-user spending on cloud services will exceed 180 billion.

2. It is predicted that by the year 2018, the global cloud computing equipment will reach 79.1 billion.

3. For cloud computing applications, if the user is required to select only one application, 25% of users choose cloud storage.

4. As of 2014, U.S. companies will spend more than $13 billion on cloud computing and hosting service management.

5. Over the next five years, workloads in the public cloud will increase by 44% annually, while local computing workloads will show an increase of 8.9%.

6.82% of companies stated that they will reduce costs by migrating to the cloud computing environment.

7. More than 60% use cloud computing technology to operate IT-related businesses.

8.14% of enterprises use IT technology to reduce IT.

9.80% of companies said they saw significant improvement after moving to cloud computing six months later.

10.32% of Americans believe that cloud computing is the future.

11. At present, there are already 1 exabytes of data stored in the cloud.

12. More than half of the companies surveyed said they are currently uploading sensitive or confidential data to the cloud.

13. Cisco predicts that global data center traffic will grow from 2.6 zettabytes in 2012 to 7.7 zettabytes in 2017, with a compound growth rate of 25%.

14. Between 2012 and 2017, global data center traffic will triple, while global cloud computing traffic will increase by 4.5 times.

15. From 2012 to 2017, the data center workload will increase by 2.3 times, and the cloud computing workload will increase by 3.7 times.

16. In 2014, most workloads will be migrated to the cloud because 51% of the load will be processed in the cloud, while traditional IT values ​​will handle 49% of the workload.

17. On average, each company will use 545 cloud services.

18.56% of respondents expressed their belief in the capabilities of cloud computing service providers and believed that they can protect sensitive data and confidential data.

19. It is predicted that 59% of new cloud computing expenditures will come mainly from North American companies.

20.38% of companies broke the cloud computing budget, and 60% of cloud-related costs were considered part of the company's IT budget.

These data do not provide a detailed description of the current cloud computing market, but they also provide a rough picture of the current status of information technology development. As a CIO, the next step is to work with your team to discuss cloud computing technologies such as cloud storage, and believe that this data can help you.