"The Battle of the system houses is in full swing", is one of the
results of this year's "Cloud Vendor Benchmark" Experton Group, compares
the provider and shows trends.
The steep upward curve shows the cloud investments, which are expected in 2015 in this country made. "No one would have thought that cloud computing is such a long-lasting trend. The theme is not hype, but rather inherent in the system ", Heiko Henkes, Cloud Lead Advisor explained in Experton Group and project leader of the cloud provider comparison in the sixth edition now.
Investment Motor hums
According to the forecast, the cloud expenditures of many companies, driven by Big Data, Mobility, UC, collaboration and the increasing digitization and networking of this year could be around nine billion euros. This would represent an increase of 37 % y.o.y. For the first time of the expenditure on cloud services (+ 39% to EUR 4.6 billion), the total spending on cloud technologies (+ 33% to EUR 2.9 billion) as well as consulting and integration services (+ 38% to 1.6 billion euros) over wings.
What remains for local system houses?
Looking at the top players, especially for IaaS in self-service Public Clouds to Experton however, asks whether "the great Hyperscaler as AWS, Microsoft and - remain Google in the highly standardized IT environment and thus - already relegated for the local system houses only the place is reserved in the managed service corner ". In this segment, there is therefore only a hoster or a system house that offers the great significant headwinds. Also generally roll the wave of consolidation among system vendors continue.
In addition, shrinking the traditional IT market. While traditional hardware and software expenditures stagnate or decline, what the classical ISVs sit among other under pressure, the "catch basin Services" climb to continue - through expenditures in cloud concepts. "The software market is as usual no longer exist," says Henke - and as many will be fond of perhaps faster. Experton estimates that in 2019 SaaS accepts the supremacy.
