IaaS Market Trends

Analytical reviews of the IaaS market says that it will not slow the growth rate for another 3 years until 2021. It is expected that its capitalization will be 85 billion dollars. Another trend will be the monopolization of the market: 2/3 of the entire market will be occupied by the top 10 largest providers. Now these providers are actively investing in their infrastructure and data centers.

There is also another trend: the migration of corporate IT infrastructures to the cloud. This is primarily due to the fact that the cloud platform helps reduce the cost of maintenance of own infrastructure. By the end of 2017, only 8% of all companies in the world have adapted, at least in part, to IaaS-technologies but this number will definitely grow.

Both of these trends caused by social trends in the protection of information, including payment transactions, biometric and geolocation data in virtualized environments; intensive growth of popularity of cryptocurrencies; the total implementation of IoT and the transfer of social services to the digital environment, for example, the development of medicine.

Technological trends
The market will see significant investments and demand of providers and customers in IT security - anti-virus, intrusion prevention.
Companies are producing an increasing amount of data, which is growing at a snowball rate. The largest equipment manufacturers have long been working on improving data storage technologies. In 2018, the segment of data storage equipment will grow dynamically, and the market is likely to have important debuts.

The spread and implementation of the IPv6 protocol will become a logical reaction of the market to the deficit of IP-addresses v4. This is one of the fundamental factors affecting the development of the Internet of things and related industries.