IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker tracks spending patterns of users and service providers, along with revenues of vendors to paint a picture of cloud adoption trends.
Infrastructure spending on public and private cloud technology – which includes servers, storage and Ethernet switching – grew 21.9% in 2015 to be a $29 billion industry. Cloud technology made up almost one-third (32%) of all IT infrastructure sales; that’s up from $28.6% in 2014.
