Gartner predicts global public cloud end-user spending will grow 23% in 2021

According to the latest forecast from Gartner, global end-user spending on public cloud services in 2021 will be $ 332.3 billion. Compared to last year’s figure of 270 billion dollars, they will grow by 23.1%.

“The events of the past year have allowed CIOs to overcome any reluctance to move mission-critical workloads from on-premises to the cloud,” said Sid Nag, vice president of research at Gartner. “Even without a pandemic, interest in data centers will continue to decline.”

“New technologies such as containerization, virtualization and edge computing are becoming more prevalent and are driving additional cloud computing costs,” he said. “Simply put, the pandemic has increased CIOs’ interest in the cloud.”

Software as a service (SaaS) remains the largest market segment. This segment is projected to reach $ 122.6 billion in 2021. Desktop as a Service (DaaS) will see the highest growth in 2021 at 67.7%. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) will grow by 38.5%. This is due to the constant need to scale the infrastructure that supports moving complex workloads to the cloud.

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