Dutch Enterprise Public Cloud Services Market Size And Forecast

While we are working on developing our market sizing and forecast study for the public cloud, scheduled for release next year, we figured it would be a good idea to give our blog readers a sneak preview. So here goes.....

We estimate that Dutch businesses (from very small to very large) will spend €324 million on public cloud services in 2011, an increase of 41% compared to €230 million spent in 2010. Software as a Service (SaaS) represents the largest portion of public cloud, growing 37% from €161 to €222 million. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the second largest segment, growing 48% from €53 to €79 million. Platform as as Service (PaaS) is the smallest section, growing 49% from €16 to €23 million.

Key drivers for businesses to increase their public cloud spend include decreased time-to-market, a desire to move to predictible usage based pricing, increased scalability, and increased mobility. Key inhibitors include security and compliance concerns, vendors offering immature solutions, the inability to customize one-size-fits-all solutions, and the need to integrate public cloud solutions with legacy IT.

For the next couple of years we predict that public cloud spending in the Netherlands will increase from €324 million in 2011 to €959 million in 2015, a CAGR of 33%. See figure below.

Read the remainder of the blog and check out the figure on the website of The METISfiles.