6 Important Cloud Computing Statistics

CLOUDCLOUD COMPUTING SPECT ATOR 6ofthe most interesting, tossed-around industry statistics that you have to know. $150 The size of the cloud computing market by 2013, as predicted by Gartner. Merrill Lynch gives similar estimates, predict- ing a growth to $160 billion by 2013. SECURITY: $750 MILLION 54% 57% DISAGREE THE TOP CONCERN for migrating applications to the cloud, according to a very recent LinkedIn® survey out of 7052 par- ticipants. GoGrid conducted a simi- lar survey and also concluded Secu- rity as a top concern for migrating. The amount Amazon.com's AWS expects to earn in 2011, as predicted by UBS analysts. A 2010 survey by Mimecast discovered 57% of respondents agreed cloud computing actually improved their security. 7h0 MRTUAL 60% ZATION ... A study by Mimecast in 2010 discovered that 7 out of 10 compa- nies using cloud services are willing to and will move new ap- plications to the cloud. Many would have done so by 2011. By 2014, approximately 60% of server workloads will be virtualized, according to predictions from Gartner. Com- pare that to12% of server workloads virtualized in 2008. FOR MORE CLOUD COMPUTING INFORMATION GO TO HTTP://WWW.CLOUDSPECTATOR.COM