Business Gets Remote
The amount of IT spending on cloud computing services, such as data storage, is growing.
Global spending on public cloud services

Source: Gartner
Most companies seek efficiency; fewer see cloud computing as transformational force.
In your opinion, cloud computing ….

Source: Accenture survey of 669 IT decision makers
Most companies that shift business processes to the cloud begin with commodity applications.
Most-used application

Source: CDW poll of 320 corporate cloud users
Cloud computing will bring significant growth in servers and data storage—but not in IT jobs.
Expected growth over the next 10 years

Source: IDC
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