Pandemic ushers in the next era of enterprise cloud adoption
Covid-19 has pushed global cloud spend up even further, as companies look to modernise at a faster clip in response to more remote working.
Covid-19 has pushed global cloud spend up even further, as companies look to modernise at a faster clip in response to more remote working.
Customer investment in relation to unified communications collaboration tools increased seven per cent year-on-year during the second quarter of 2020.
Spending on cloud surpassed $30 billion during the second quarter, with AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud accounting for half of customer spend.
The total number of large data centres operated by hyperscalers increased to 541 at the end of the second quarter, with a further 176 in the pipeline.
The market for SaaS conferencing solutions increased by 17 per cent year-on-year during the first quarter of 2020, with all growth attributed to Zoom.
By Bharat Bedi, SolarWinds, Head of Sales, APJ