#SaaS revenue segmentation by application type thru 2017; apps are key; cross industry validates the horizontally scalable software oppty http://www.via-cc.at...
more traditional / larger organisations I deal with have some financial benift.. CAPEX/OPEX .. often this is all some people quate to cloud (CFO's :) just a financial model...
The public cloud PaaS market will grow from $2.8B in 2016 to $3.6B in 2017 and $48.9B by 2027, a CAGR of 29.8%. This market overall is still in its early formative stage, both public and private cloud manifestations.
Enterprise actors – both business and IT – need to be actively engaging in bringing the public cloud into their business today and planning a strategy for a technology that is likely to make up as much as 28% of their IT spending budget by 2027.
Ultimately, practitioners need to consider their enterprise’s unique business and digital transformation requirements to properly architect and deploy workloads where they can obtain the best business value for their enterprise.
To accomplish this, enterprises should establish an adaptive strategy that exploits the best of today’s public cloud offerings while hedging their bets to leave open the space to move to alternative platforms such as hybrid