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11 Intriguing Facts About Cloud Computing

by | May 22, 2014 | Blog, Trendy Telecom Blog, Uncategorized

To the cloud!

Is something a lot of business owners and IT professionals are leaning towards today. Well many analysts have begun to agree and say that cloud computing is here for the long-run. Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth over the past few years and this growth  is expected continue.

Below we have listed a few of the facts that have indicated the growth of the industry and where it is planned to be in the future.

  1. SMBs who have embraced mobility have generated 40% higher revenue growth in the last 12 months compared to those who did not.
  2. Half of the U.S. government IT workers say that they have moved work to the cloud.
  3. Cloud computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to the alternative of running its own IT system.
  4. 90 percent of Microsoft’s 2011 R&D budget was spent on cloud computing strategy and products.
  5. 60% reported cloud computing as their highest IT priority.
  6. Worldwide IT spending on cloud computing has increased more than 25 percent from 2008 to 2012.
  7. The Cloud Computing market is expected to reach $241 billion by 2020
  8. 26 percent of companies are planning a major cloud implementation
  9. Providers of cloud services saw a massive jump in personnel from 2007 to 2010. Cloud jobs went from zero to over 550,000.
  10. A new cloud server is added for every 600 smartphones or 120 tablets in use.
  11. An estimated 41 percent of the top executives in major companies around the world claim to use the cloud to streamline some portion of their business.

Sorry to everyone on the cloud computing hating wagon but looks like it is here to stay.

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