IDC Cloud – An IDC Four Pillar Research Area

The cloud movement is about much more than the cloud and cannot be sufficiently understood as a standalone phenomenon in the IT market. It should instead be considered a core ingredient of a larger transformation of the IT industry - and many other industries using IT to transform themselves.

  • Recent IDC research shows that Worldwide spending on public IT cloud services will be more than $40 billion in 2012 and is expected to approach $100 billion in 2016. Over the 2012–2016 forecast period, public IT cloud services will enjoy a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.4%, five times that of the IT industry overall, as companies build out the infrastructure needed to deliver public cloud services.
  • By 2015, one of every seven dollars spent on packaged software, server, and storage offerings will be through the public cloud model.
  • Other ingredients enabled by cloud - and, in turn, accelerating cloud adoption - include the expanding "species" of mobile devices, the explosion of mobile apps and Big Data tools, and the growing availability of wireless broadband.

Primary Analyst Team


David Bradshaw Research Manager

Frank Gens Senior Vice President & Chief Analyst

Robert P. Mahowald Research Vice President

Richard L. Villars Vice President

Additional Cloud Analysts

Chris Ingle Associate Vice President Chris Morris Research Director Curtis Price Program Vice President Dave Reinsel Group Vice President
David Bradshaw Research Manager David Tapper Vice President Gard Little Research Manager James Eibish Research Director
Ivano Ortis Head – International, IDC Retail Insights Karen Massey Senior Research Analyst Kim Knickle Practice Director Laura DuBois Program Vice President
Lucinda Borovick Program Vice President Margaret Adam Research Director Mary Johnston Turner Research Director Matt Eastwood Group Vice President and General Manager
Maureen Fleming Program Vice President Melanie Posey Research Vice President Melinda Ballou Program Director Mette Ahoru Research Director
Nigel Wallis Research Director Rebecca Segal VP, Global Services Markets and Trends Ricardo Villate Vice President Satoshi Matsumoto Research Manager
Scott Lundstrom Group Vice President Shawn McCarthy Research Director Steve Hendrick Group Vice President Tim Grieser Program Vice President
Usman Sindhu Senior Research Analyst Vladimir Kroa Research Director

IDC Datacentre Summit 2013
May 16, 2013 – London

IDC Cloud & Virtualisation Conference 2013
Jun 6, 2013 – Düsseldorf

IDC Cloud Conference 2013
Jun 11, 2013 – Stockholm

IDC Cloud & Virtualisation Conference 2013
Jun 11, 2013 – Zurich

IDC Cloud Conference 2013
Jun 13, 2013 – Copenhagen

IDC Cloud Services Conference 2013
Jun 12, 2013 – Paris

IDC The Practical Cloud Summit 2013
Oct 22, 2013 – London

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