Making Money with Cloud Computing; Top Statistics
Posted by Bo Cramer on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 @ 09:57 AM
In an article by Reuven Cohen, the Cloud Computing Opportunity by the Numbers, he shared a multitude of interesting and convincing figures that back the claim that there is a huge opportunity arising in the cloud. With all due credit for the stats going to the article from Reuven's website: ElasticVapor, I wanted to share some of these interesting points:
- There are 50 Million servers worldwide today. By 2013 60% of server workload will be virtualized
- In 2008 the amount of digital information increased by 73%
- There were 360,985,492 internet users in 2000. In 2009 that number increased to 1,802,330,457. That's roughly 27% of the entire world population.
- 50% of the servers sold worldwide are destined for use in a data center (the average data center uses 20 megawatts, 10 times more than data centers in 2000 used.)
- Merrill Lynch predicts that the cloud computing market will reach $160 billion by 2011.
- IBM claims Cloud cuts IT labor costs by up to 50% and improves capital utilization by 75%
These numbers demonstrate the economic opportunity cloud computing presents.