The "cloud" market will grow by 6 times by 2020

The world market of cloud computing will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to $241 billion in 2020. Such conclusion is drawn by Forrester Research in the new research.

On the way to this growth there are several noticeable stages. First of all - the market the infrastructure-as-service (IaaS) will reach the pica in $5.9 billion in world income by 2014, and then alignment of cost, price pressure and falling of a margin will follow. In other words, early victories of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace will not add in the long term.

The companies of all sizes will implement program ((((((((((((((((((((((((SaaS). In 2011 the SaaS market will make $21.2 billion and will grow to $92.8 billion in 2016. At this time SaaS comes to saturation point.

The direction business process - as-service (BPaaS) will be noticeable, but will show moderate profitability.

Virtualization will recede on a background as new technologists will come

For comparison, these middle of July, 2010. Then reported to Forbes that the world market of corporate cloud services will grow from $12.1 billion in 2010 to $35.6 billion in 2015. The annual gain will make 43% in 2011, but there will be a reduction up to 13% within the next five years. On program ((((((((((((((((((((((((SaaS) is necessary to 70% of income of 2010, and 30% - on infrastructure-as-service.

By Gartner in the forecast (in the same month) claims that it income from cloud services is around the world reached $68.3 billion in 2010 (including public and private cloud services) and will grow to $148.8 billion in 2014. The forecast of International Data Corporation then reported that world income from public cloud services exceeded $16 billion in 2009 and growth to $55.5 billion in 2014 is predicted.

In the report of WinterGreen Research it was said that sale of the software and IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services in the world made $20.3 billion in 2009, with an overall outlook of growth of the market to $100, 4 billion by 2016.