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What awaits the IaaS market: trends in brief

Yesterday we prepared for you a digest of events dedicated to IT infrastructure and cloud technologies, which will be held at the Russian sites this year.

Today, we offer you a look at the trends of the IaaS and PaaS markets. According to Gartner, their estimate in 2018 will be $ 186.4 billion (compared with 153.5 billion in 2017).


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IaaS is the fastest growing


In a research company Gartner believe that IaaS - the fastest growing market segment. According to analysts, in 2018, the value of the IaaS market will grow by 35.9%: from $ 30 to $ 40.8 billion. By 2021, this market will be valued at $ 83.5 billion.

Gartner estimates that by 2021, the 10 largest cloud providers will have 70% of the IaaS market (compared to 50% in 2016). And this is not surprising, considering how much companies spend on expanding and developing their virtual infrastructure . For example, in March last year, Google announced that their spending on expanding its data center network over the past three years amounted to $ 30 billion.

For example, earlier this year, the company that owns Snapchat, signed an agreement with Google for five years. Under its terms, Snap will spend $ 400 million annually on the IT giant's cloud services. Snapchat'u virtual infrastructure is needed for data storage and management, analysis, security and other tasks.
In the domestic market, the IaaS segment also leads in terms of revenue growth. As of the end of 2016, revenues of the 10 largest providers of Russia grew by 76% (from 3.8 billion rubles in 2015 to 6.7 billion in 2016). According to the results of the Cnews study, IT-GRAD took the first place in terms of revenue from the provision of IaaS services - more than 1 billion rubles.
Another trend is the active migration of corporate IT infrastructures to the cloud. For example, Jotun Manufacturing Enterprise has already deployed all office infrastructure in the IT-GRAD cloud: Business-critical services such as SQL, file server, and Domino are now running in the provider cloud. And Aeroflot intends to transfer up to 90% of its IT infrastructure to the cloud by 2020.

Most companies are beginning to move completely to the clouds, because, according to them, the cloud environment is easily scaled, managed and helps save on IT infrastructure. According to experts, in the future the IaaS market will only grow. According to 451 Research, in 2016, 6% of world companies in one form or another adapted IaaS technologies for themselves, but experts expect that in 2018 this figure will increase by 2 times. In this case, the total share of workloads in the cloud will be 60%.


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PaaS - the second segment of the growth rate


As predicted by Gartner, the value of the PaaS market will reach $ 15 billion by the end of 2018 (compared with 12 billion in 2017). It is expected that by 2021 the market will be valued at $ 27 billion.

At the same time, analysts call the fastest growing segment of the PaaS market DBPaaS (database platform as a service). By 2021, the valuation of this segment will reach $ 10 billion. This is due to the fact that more and more hyperscale-providers are adding DBPaaS to the list of services provided.

Forbes writes that enterprises choose PaaS because they are confident that in the near future it will become a safe and scalable platform for developing applications. According to Coca-Cola Germany CEO Ulrik Nehammer, PaaS simplifies communication between employees and increases their involvement in the company's internal processes. To do this, the company has placed mobile and other business-critical services in the cloud.

For example, Levi's uses PaaS for security reasons. The CASB and Identity Management services are responsible for this. Using these solutions allows Levi's to comply with its internal information security policies and prevent data leaks. At the same time, Exelon PaaS is used to implement chat bots based on AI systems in order to more quickly solve customer problems.

In general, Gartner analysts suggest that after 2018 the development of the cloud market will stabilize. Sharp jumps will stop - they will be replaced by steady growth, as is the case with other mature technologies.


PS Some fresh materials from the First Corporate IaaS blog:


PPS A couple of other materials from the blog on Habré:

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/358428/


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