Well the forecast is in and the future is bright for the Australian Cloud.
IDC, a global analyst firm studied the trends on Cloud services in the country. Based on this analysis, if the current trend continues the industry in is for a hefty 34% annual growth rate until 2015.
But before we can fully understand this growth, let us analyse what the scenario is today.
Australian cloud services were worth more than $470 million in 2010. In 2011, we have seen companies like Fujitsu, Telstra and Macquarie Telecom invest almost $1 billion to support the cloud infrastructure in the country.
At that rate, revenues will be reaching $2 billion by 2015. It does not only mean an increase in profits but if there is a forecast revenue growth, there will be job opportunities along the way. In fact, more than 4,000 people were employed in the cloud services sector by 2010. That figure will dramatically increase in the next few years. Cloud assessment and planning tasks are being included in more and more job descriptions. IT companies are scrambling to equip themselves to meet the demands of Australian companies.
So what will this mean specifically for cloud services? Based on the analysis, cloud computing as we know it will grow and strengthen into other cloud categories. Specifically, these categories will include applications - their development and deployment. The increase will be credited to the replacement of servers, development of cloud service tools and mobile applications.
The report also states that a lot of enterprises in Australia are planning to deploy cloud services by the first quarter of 2012 while the rest of the non-users will be investing by 2013.
In another note, a large number of Australian companies are drawn to vPCs - or Virtual Private Cloud. These are more private cloud services that exist within the Intercloud or the public cloud. It is like using the public cloud but having your own little space inside so your data is more secure. Given the security issues raised about cloud computing, it is not surprising that enterprises would want to use this type of cloud service.
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