This document provides 20 statistics on the growth and adoption of cloud computing. Some key points include: 57% of companies identify scalability as the most important driver for cloud adoption; the cloud computing market in health care will grow to $5.4 billion by 2017 with adoption increasing from 4% in 2011 to 20.5% per year; and by 2016, 40% of enterprises will require independent security testing of cloud services.

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3. Our industry is going through quite
a wave of innovation and it’s being
powered by a phenomenon which is
referred to as the cloud.”
(Steve Ballmer, CEO- Microsoft, 2010)
“

4. No leader today can afford to ignore cloud
computing. Many global organizations —
including Citigroup and Starbucks — are already
using it to analyze data, provide applications to
employees and run special projects.”
(Gartner Group, 2010)
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5. 57% of companies identify
scalability as the most important
driver for cloud adoption.”
(Joe McKendrick, Cloud Computing
Simply Isn’t That Scary Anymore. Forbes)
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6. The overall cloud computing
market in health care will grow
to $5.4 billion by 2017.
(MarketsandMarkets)

7. 4%
4.82%
(Cloud Computing and Healthcare: Ready to Partner Up, July 2012)
2011
2012
In 2011, 4% of the health care industry used
cloud computing, but that number will jump
to 20.5% a year.
20% a year

8. In 2012, 80% of new
commercial enterprise apps
will be deployed on cloud
platforms”
“
(IDC)

9. Over time some of the cloud computing environments
will be mature enough with the right security,
safeguards to run important company assets.
We are trying to understand how we take advantage
of emerging cloud technologies over the next 5 years
and couple them with our existing assets.”
(Dana S. Deasy, CIO & Group VP, IT & Services – BP)
“

10. By 2016, 40%
of enterprises
will make proof
of independent
security testing a
precondition for
using any type of
cloud service”
(Gartner Group)
“

11. (Netmetix, 2011)
According to IBM’s Chief Technology Officer:
cloud computing
=
IT Labor
Costs + IT Labor
Costs

12. At year-end 2016, more than 50%
of Global 1000 companies will have stored
customer-sensitive data in the public cloud”
(Gartner Group)
“

13. (Marc Benioff, Founder of Salesforce.com)
The cloud services companies of
all sizes; the cloud is for everyone.
The cloud is a democracy.”
“

14. (Gartner Group, Gartner Predicts 2012)
The growth of cloud computing in specific
geographies will be directly dependent on the
availability of energy in those places.”
“

15. Cisco forecasts for cloud spending in small and
medium businesses (SMB)
(Louis Columbus, Roundup of Cloud Computing & Enterprise Software Market Estimates and
Forecasts, February 1, 2013)
2015
2010
$16B
$5B

16. Gartner
predicts three
subsegments
of BPaaS will
see the largest
growth rates
in 2016
(Xath Cruz, The Future of Cloud Adoption, July 14, 2012)
Industry Operations
Cloud Advertising
Cloud Payments

17. The US government more than quadrupled
the number of data centres it operated
between 1998 and 2010, growing from 432
facilities to more than
2000.”
(Ballie Richard, Big Data Goes Green, 2012)
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18. With the cloud, individuals and
small businesses can snap
their fingers and instantly set
up enterprise-class services.”
(Roy Stephan, Director of IT Architecture and Engineering- Intelligent Decisions, 2011)
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19. (Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware)
“Cloud is about how you do
computing, not where you
do computing”

20. Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid
coming out of school now thinks he can
be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and
with these new technologies
like cloud computing, he
actually has a shot.”
“
(Marc Andreessen, Board Member of Facebook, February 2009)

21. The biggest challenge
for IT staffs in financial
services is the changing
regulatory climate. One
possibility: known security
risks and exposures will
have to be reported.”
(Robert Hegarty, Global Head of Market Structure-
Enterprise for Thomson Reuters)
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22. (Bob Rizika, 5 Reasons Why Cloud Computing And Start-ups
Disrupt the Enterprise Software Markets, February 13, 2013)
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