The global cloud computing market size was USD 219.00 billion in 2020. The impact of COVID-19 globally has been exceptional and astounding, with cloud computing solutions witnessing a diverse demand across the region during the pandemic. Based on our research, the global market exhibited a substantial growth of 13.7% in 2020 compared to the average year-on-year revenue growth during 2017-2019. The market is projected to reach USD 250.04 billion in 2021 to USD 791.48 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 17.9% during the 2021-2028 period.
The market growth is primarily driven by the growing implementation of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and the rising shift of enterprises towards cloud-based solutions. Also, increasing investments by countries such as the U.S., the U.K., China, India, and others, in various cloud-based development projects are anticipated to boost the market's growth.
Proliferating Cloud-based Solutions amid COVID-19 Pandemic to Aid Growth
The current coronavirus epidemic has impacted economies worldwide. Governments and organizations across several industries are widely dependent on IT-related solutions and services. Lately, there has been a momentous rise in the demand for online live streaming platforms, such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Spotify, and others. Most of the workforce is working from home due to lockdown restrictions, which, in turn, has resulted in a sudden rise in demand for cloud-hosted solutions such as OTT services, video-on-demand (VoD), and others. Furthermore, this factor has augmented the adoption of cloud-based services such as SaaS and IaaS amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governments and public and private enterprises in many countries have implemented the work from home approach. This factor has resulted in an escalation in demand for SaaS-based collaboration solutions. The rising demand has created various opportunities for cloud vendors to expand their business by launching advanced solutions.
Such active initiatives are likely to boost the demand for cloud-based solutions in the upcoming years.
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Substantial Adoption of Omni-cloud over Multi-cloud to Boost Cloud Computing Industry Growth
Large enterprises are implementing multi-cloud solutions in their business operations to organize their employees over cloud-based platforms. Also, as cloud-based applications such as Dropbox, Facebook, Gmail, among others, are becoming more flexible and robust, the processing cycle needs to be faster in a real-time scenario. As a result, enterprises are moving towards Omni-cloud solutions to leverage numerous advantages, including ease of data use, effective decision making, secured data availability, and scalability in real-time.
Omni-cloud offers advanced connectivity services to enterprises that allow multiple platforms to integrate and reorganize data. The data positioning system is more accurate and organized with the Omni-cloud computing system. Key players in the market are implementing numerous corporate approaches such as new product launches, mergers & acquisitions, and partnerships to increase their market share.
Integration of Big Data, AI, and ML with Cloud to Provide Impetus to Market
The increasing adoption of technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and others are expected to drive the market's growth. These technologies transform the market landscape, as it assists users in monitoring, analyzing, and visualizing the unprocessed data. Adopting these emerging technologies with cloud solutions would help enterprises enhance their visualization abilities and make complex data accessible and usable. The adoption of AI and ML technologies across enterprises has empowered data usage and has reduced data storage complications. These technologies also help increase commerce productivity, enhance decision-making procedures, and reduce business operational costs. Thus, the increasing adoption of big data, AI, and ML is expected to drive the market's growth.
Data Privacy and Information Security Concerns Associated with Cloud Solutions to Impede Growth
Users deploy cloud platforms to save their confidential data and information concerning business and personal activities over the cloud-based platforms. Data security and privacy concerns about data loss, data breaches, unforeseen emergencies, application vulnerabilities, and online cyber-attacks allied to cloud-based solutions are expected to hinder growth. This can also affect the revenues in healthcare, government, IT and telecom, BFSI, and other sectors. According to the arXiv.org e-Print archive, in 2019, around 60% of the corporate-related data and information on storing drives were insecurely held.
The authorization administration, access control, data encryption & integration, communication security, among others, are a few of the cloud-based security services offered to handle information security and data privacy issues. For instance, providers including Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and Google LLP provides around 99.9% uptime, which discharges end-users from the liability of retaining and creating recovery facilities and backup infrastructure.
Public Cloud to Dominate Owing to Rapid Digital Transformation
Based on type, the cloud computing industry is allocated into private cloud, hybrid cloud, and public cloud.
The hybrid cloud is expected to display the maximum growth rate throughout the predictable period among all the segments. The growth is due to SMEs' growing implementation of cloud-based solutions to increase productivity and decrease operational costs. Additionally, the rising demand for secured, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions is likely to drive private cloud demand across large enterprises. The public cloud services are anticipated to lead the market in terms of share during the estimated period. The growth is attributable to the digital transformation, increasing penetration towards connected devices, and growing automation amongst small and medium enterprises.
Rising Demand among Various Enterprises to Drive Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Based on service, the market is divided into software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
Among the services, the software as a service (SaaS) captured the major share in 2020. This growth is due to its ease of deployment, cost-effectiveness, and low maintenance charges. The infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is projected to show the highest growth rate during the projection period. The growth is attributable to the increasing adoption of hybrid cloud platforms and swelling demand for storage & safety of business data solutions.
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Higher Adoption of Cloud Computing Solutions to Propel IT and Telecommunications
Based on industry, the market is divided into banking, financial services, & insurance (BFSI), government, IT & telecommunications, healthcare, consumer goods & retail, manufacturing, and others.
Among the segments, IT & telecommunications is projected to show the largest share during the foreseeable period. The segment's growth is due to the rising implementation of cloud-based solutions across IT enterprises for data storage and management. In addition, secured storage, enhanced productivity & performance, and reliability empowers the IT and telecom sector to adopt cloud solutions.
The healthcare segment is likely to develop at the uppermost compound annual growth rate (CAGR) during the study period. This growth is owing to the rising deployment of cloud-based software, mobile applications, wearable healthcare devices, smart healthcare equipment, among others. Other industries such as retail and consumer goods, BFSI, government, manufacturing, and others are anticipated to show noteworthy CAGR, owing to government and cloud providers' increasing initiatives and investment plans to support cloud adoption across start-ups.
North America Cloud Computing Market, 2020 (USD Billion)
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Geographically, the market is segmented across five major regions: North America, Latin America, the Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific, and Europe.
North America is expected to dominate the market in terms of revenue during the forecast period. The rapid development and adoption of emerging technologies and key players such as IBM Corporation, Amazon Web Services, Apple Inc., and others are expected to drive the growth across the region.
The Asia Pacific is likely to display exponential growth during the estimated period. The growth is owing to the rising demand for cloud-based solutions across the manufacturing and healthcare industries. Also, the increasing demand for smart electric vehicles (EVs), growing internet penetration, and ongoing digitalization are expected to drive the growth in the region.
Europe is expected to showcase a substantial CAGR during the forecast period. The growth is attributable to the increasing manufacturing start-ups, digital government projects and regulatory environment, and increasing adoption of cloud-based technologies.
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The Middle East & Africa, and Latin America will probably exhibit a considerable growth rate through the upcoming year. The growth is due to the increasing investments by governments in Israel, Brazil, Mexico and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, machine learning (ML), big data, cloud, and others.
Emphasis towards Innovative Cloud Computing Solutions by Key Players to Strengthen Competition
Major players such as Microsoft Corporation, Amazon Web Services, IBM Corporation, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Oracle Corporation, and Apple, Inc. are focused on upgrading their existing product portfolio. These companies provide a complete suite of cloud-computing services such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS Cloud, among others. Also, these companies are now developing and offering cloud-based solutions with innovative technologies such as AI, ML, and others to enhance their products and provide enriched solutions to their users.
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The cloud computing market research report provides a detailed analysis of the market and focuses on key aspects such as leading companies, product types, and leading product applications. Besides this, the report offers insights into the market trends and highlights key industry developments. In addition to the aforementioned factors, the report encompasses several factors that have contributed to the growth of the advanced market over recent years.
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