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Comments Off IDC: Cloud Computing Server Sales To Reach $12.6B By 2014
MAY 10, 2010, 11:15 A.M. ET – By Benjamin Pimentel – WSJ
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–Server sales related to cloud computing are expected to jump to $12.6 billion in the next five years as more businesses embrace the era of automated and virtualized data centers.
Server revenue for cloud computing in the public sector is projected to rise to $718 million in 2014 from $582 million in 2009, International Data Corp. (IDC) said in a Monday report. Meanwhile, server revenue for private-sector cloud market is expected to increase to $11.8 billion from $7.3 billion in the same period, IDC said.
Cloud computing enables companies to access computing power through a network instead of in-house data centers that have become increasingly more expensive and complex to set up and maintain.
Another emerging trend in the corporate IT market is virtualization, in which businesses tap disparate computer systems on their premises or in hosted data centers as one network and use that computing capacity based on needs.
“Now is a great time for many IT organizations to begin seriously considering this technology and employing public and private clouds in order to simplify sprawling IT environments,” IDC analyst Katherine Broderick said in a statement.
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