Mushroom Growth Expected in Public Cloud Infrastructure

Spending on IT infrastructure for cloud environments will reach £36.6 billion ($44.2 billion) this year, with public cloud data centres attracting 61% of the total and 15% going on off-premises private clouds, according to IDC. It predicts overall spend on IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, and switches, will grow by 18.2% in 2017 and that off-premises cloud IT infrastructure will see a CAGR of 14.2% over the next three years