UNCOVERING THE INSIGHT BEHIND GARTNER’S $331 BILLION PUBLIC CLOUD FORECAST
Gartner is predicting the worldwide public cloud services market will grow from $182.4 billion in 2018 to $214.3bn in 2019, a 17.5% jump in just a year.
- Gartner predicts the worldwide public cloud service market will grow from $182.4bn in 2018 to $331.2bn in 2022, attaining a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.6%.
- Spending on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is predicted to increase from $30.5bn in 2018 to $38.9bn in 2019, growing 27.5% in a year.
- Platform as a service (PaaS) spending is predicted to grow from $15.6bn in 2018 to $19B in 2019, growing 21.8% in a year.
- Business intelligence, supply chain management, project and portfolio management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) will see the fastest growth in end-user spending on SaaS applications through 2022.
Gartner’s annual forecast of worldwide public cloud service revenue was published, and it includes many interesting insights into how the research firm sees the current and future landscape of public cloud computing. Gartner is predicting the worldwide public cloud services market will grow from $182.4bn in 2018 to $214.3bn in 2019, a 17.5% jump in just a year.
By the end of 2019, more than 30% of technology providers’ new software investments will shift from cloud-first to cloud-only, further reducing license-based software spending and increasing subscription-based cloud revenue.
The following graphic compares worldwide public cloud service revenue by segment from 2018 to 2022.
Comparing compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) of worldwide public cloud service revenue segments from 2018 to 2022 reflects IaaS’ anticipated rapid growth.
BI, supply chain management, project and portfolio management and ERP will see the fastest growth in end-user spending on SaaS applications through 2022
Gartner is predicting end-user spending on business intelligence SaaS applications will grow by 23.3% between 2017 and 2022. Spending on SaaS-based supply chain management applications will grow by 21.2% between 2017 and 2022. Project and portfolio management SaaS-based applications will grow by 20.9% between 2017 and 2022. End-user spending on SaaS ERP systems will grow by 19.2% between 2017 and 2022.
