Dive Brief:
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Spending for cloud IT represented nearly 30% of overall IT infrastructure investments in first quarter 2015, according to International Data Corporation.
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That figure is up from 26.4% in the same period a year ago.
- In comparison, spending in the non-cloud IT infrastructure segment increased by only 6.1% in the first quarter over the same period in 2014, largely driven by increased sales of servers.
Dive Insight:
Both public and private cloud installations are showing continued growth, according to IDC, which found that worldwide vendor revenues from the sale of cloud IT infrastructure products grew 25.1% to nearly $6.3 billion in first quarter 2015 compared with the same period a year ago.
IDC executives say that while the report simply measures how much money is flowing into cloud infrastructure right now, the data can be useful for the CIO or IT staff trying to plan capital budgets.
“Private and public cloud infrastructures have been growing … suggesting that customers are open to a broad array of hybrid deployment scenarios," said Kuba Stolarski, IDC's research manager for server, virtualization and workload research, in a statement.
