Market Overview
The market for the Company’s products and services has experienced strong demand and management anticipates that such demand will continue for the foreseeable future.
According to IHS Technology, enterprise businesses moving their IT services, applications and infrastructure to cloud-based architecture will cause market revenue in this segment to surge by a factor of three from 2011 to 2017. 1
IHS reports “Global business spending for infrastructure and services related to the cloud will reach an estimated $174.2 billion (in 2014), up a hefty 20 percent from $145.2 billion in 2013. By 2017, enterprise spending on the cloud will amount to a projected $235.1 billion, triple the $78.2 billion in 2011.
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1 IHS: Cloud- Related Spending by Businesses to Triple from 2011 to 2017 – February 4, 2014.
Within the Cloud market, IDC is predicting that the cloud software market will surpass $75 billion by 2017 attaining a five year compound annual growth rate of 22% in the forecast period 2 and according to Gartner, SaaS and cloud-based business application services revenue will grow from $13.5 billion in 2011 to $32.8 billion in 2016, at a compound annual growth rate of 19.5% . 3
Wikibon’s research projects rapid market growth for Converged Infrastructure, expecting the total available market to reach $402 billion by 2017 of which $217 billion is comprised of Server, Storage, Networking and Infrastructure Software.
Additional research from IDC anticipates the overall spending on converged systems in the data center to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 54.7 percent, from $2.0 billion in 2011 to $17.8 billion in 2016 and that converged infrastructure will account for 12.8 percent of total storage, server, networking and software spending by 2016, up from only 3.9 percent in 2012.
Over the next 12 months, two additional significant trends are expected to benefit the Company: (i) within the next 12 months more than 50% of enterprises will prioritize building private internal Clouds (currently, the common approach that companies are using is by purchasing commercial software), 4 and (ii) Cloud applications will account for 90% of total mobile data traffic by 2018 while Mobile cloud traffic will grow 12-fold from 2013 to 2018, attaining a compound annual growth rate of 64%
