Published on the 20/01/2015 | Written by Beverley Head
Australian enterprise has got significantly more comfortable with the notion of public cloud with Gartner forecasting a 24 percent increase in spending during 2015…
Public cloud services spending in Australia is forecast by Gartner to reach $A4.15 billion in 2015, up from 3.36 billion in 2014. Meanwhile a separate report from Telsyte suggests that Australian enterprise is growing used to the idea of cloud-based communications, predicting that by 2020 this will represent a $650 million business in Australia.
Gartner posits that the Australian appetite for public cloud is outstripping that in the broader Asia Pacific and Japan region, which will this year grow by a much more moderate 14.2 percent to $US7.4 billion.
According to Gartner, by 2018, total public cloud services spending in the mature APJ region will rise to $US11.5 billion underpinned by reliable telecommunications infrastructure. While Gartner categorises Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea as the mature APJ market, it did not break down New Zealand’s public cloud market as a separate line item.
By 2018, business process as a service (BPaaS) cloud services will make up 9.2 percent of the overall public cloud services market in APJ, platform as a service (PaaS) will represent three percent of the market, SaaS will be at 21.5 percent, cloud management/security services at four percent, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) will be at 9.8 percent, and the remaining 52.5 percent will come from cloud advertising according to Gartner.
Cloud management and storage and SaaS will be among the faster growing public cloud services through 2018 as more enterprise and government users jump onto cloud services.
“Increased intra-region integration in APJ across services and industries will drive public cloud usage as countries in this region break down borders through trade bloc agreements such as the ASEAN Economic Integration 2015 and the Trans Pacific Partnerships, which will drive more mobility, big data sharing and analytics and public cloud infrastructure and applications to support these initiatives,” according to Fred Ng, senior research analyst at Gartner.
In terms of cloud-based communications Telsyte’s Australian Enterprise Communications Market Study for 2015 released overnight found that growing acceptance of cloud-based services such as Skype and increased appetite for unified communications to support employee flexibility will drive demand for cloud communications services to the extent that by 2020 more than 30 percent of enterprises will opt for cloud communications services rather than owning and operating their own Pabx equipment.
