Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Cloud Computing Market Analysis & Trends - Industry Forecast to 2025" report to their offering.

The Global Cloud Computing Market is poised to grow at a CAGR of around 27.5% over the next decade to reach approximately $1,250 billion by 2025.

This industry report analyzes the market estimates and forecasts for all the given segments on global as well as regional levels presented in the research scope. The study provides historical market data for 2013, 2014 revenue estimations are presented for 2015 and forecasts from 2016 till 2025.

The study focuses on market trends, leading players, supply chain trends, technological innovations, key developments, and future strategies. With comprehensive market assessment across the major geographies such as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Latin America and Rest of the world the report is a valuable asset for the existing players, new entrants and the future investors.

Some of the prominent trends that the market is witnessing include increasing applications of cloud computing solutions and expansion of global players into emerging regions.

Based on deployment the market is categorized into public cloud, community cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud.

Depending on the service the market is segmented by platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as service (IaaS) and software as a service (SaaS).

Report Highlights:

- The report provides a detailed analysis on current and future market trends to identify the investment opportunities - Market forecasts till 2025, using estimated market values as the base numbers - Key market trends across the business segments, Regions and Countries - Key developments and strategies observed in the market - Market Dynamics such as Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities and other trends - In-depth company profiles of key players and upcoming prominent players - Growth prospects among the emerging nations through 2025 - Market opportunities and recommendations for new investments

Key Topics Covered:

1 Market Outline

2 Executive Summary

3 Market Overview 3.1 Current Trends 3.1.1 Increasing applications of cloud computing solutions 3.1.2 Expansion of global players into emerging regions 3.1.3 Recent Technological Developments of Cloud Computing 3.1.4 Growth Opportunities/Investment Opportunities 3.2 Drivers 3.3 Constraints 3.4 Industry Attractiveness

4 Cloud Computing Market, By Deployment 4.1 Public Cloud 4.2 Community Cloud 4.3 Private Cloud 4.4 Hybrid Cloud

5 Cloud Computing Market, By Service 5.1 Platform as a Service (PaaS) 5.2 Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) 5.3 Software as a Service (SaaS)

6 Cloud Computing Market, By Geography

7 Key Player Activities 7.1 Mergers & Acquisitions 7.2 Partnerships, Joint Venture's, Collaborations and Agreements 7.3 Product Launch & Expansions 7.4 Other Activities

8 Leading Companies 8.1 CA Technologies 8.2 Cisco Systems 8.3 Google 8.4 HP 8.5 Amazon.Com 8.6 IBM 8.7 Microsoft 8.8 SAP AG 8.9 Yahoo! Inc 8.10 Oracle 8.11 Flexiant 8.12 Citrix Systems, Inc. 8.13 ENKI Consulting 8.14 Akamai Technologies, Inc. 8.15 Citrix Systems, Inc.

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The adoption of public cloud computing in the banking and financial sectors will move at a faster pace after the Bank of Thailand's recent notification allowing the use of cloud in IT outsourcing services.

The notification, effective from Jan 31, indicates the central bank's awareness of the benefits of cloud-based services such as scalability and advanced functionalities for financial institutions.

"Thailand's central bank is one of five in Asia-Pacific -- the others being its peers in Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and South Korea -- that can adapt quickly to rapid changes in technological innovations and assist the local banking and financial sectors," said Andrew Cooke, regional director for legal affairs for Asia Pacific & Japan at Microsoft Operations Pte.

The adoption of cloud technology in the financial sector is still fairly limited because of security and data privacy concerns and regulations.

Using cloud technology in critical information systems requires the central bank's approval 30 days before deployment.

The central bank had not previously clarified the use of cloud in the financial sector.

"The notification can promote confidence and security among financial institutions in Thailand," said Mr Cooke.

To capitalise on this opportunity, he said Microsoft has issued guidelines for the use of cloud services by financial institutions in Thailand.

Lesly Goh, the financial service industry lead for Asia Pacific at Microsoft Operations, said Thailand's financial service market has a lot of potential as the country has large regional and local banks intending to adopt advanced digital technology to transform their services.

Microsoft mayprovide artificial intelligence techniques used in security monitoring systems for greater effectiveness, as well as detecting new ATM malware and other e-payment activities to support the Thai government's national e-payment scheme.

Ms Goh said Microsoft is also encouraging banks in Thailand to adopt blockchain technology in common services like digital identity, supply chain and trade finance.

Keshav Dhakad, regional director for the digital crime unit at Microsoft Operations, said the financial sector is one of the top traditional targets for cybercrime. "Thailand ranked among the top five countries in Asia Pacific in 2016 with the highest number of malware infections," he said.

Trojan, worms and viruses are three most common malware categories in Thailand.

Nearly 25% of computers in Thailand are infected with a Trojan -- higher than the global average of 10%.

In addition, Mr Dhakad said the average amount of time organisations in Asia Pacific needed to detect cyber threats hidden in their systems is longer than 500 days, compared with 140 days globally.

Mr Dhakad attributed the high infection rate in the country to the lack of cybersecurity risk assessment measures and the use of pirated software or counterfeit software packages.

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Microsoft recently conducted a survey to identify Azure environment trends and found that the highest paid job role is that of the Azure enterprise architect. The salary ranges around $125,000 for Azure architects. Next in line are the developers and sales and marketing professionals, with salaries of around $100,000. A total of 1,136 Azure enterprises were surveyed of which about a third were US-based. The survey captured responses on the cost to company and not just the salary, indicating that the numbers are inclusive of overheads such as cost and training. The average cost for enterprise architects in the Asia Pacific region stands at $100,000, and for Western Europe at about $80,000. The global average is $80,000. Some of the important costs for various roles in the cloud computing community are as follows: Architect: $125,000 (in the US) and $80,000 (worldwide) Developer: $100,000 (in the US) and $60,000 (worldwide) Sales and marketing: $100,000 (in the US) and $60,000 (worldwide) Project services delivery: $90,000 (in the US) and $65,000 (worldwide) UI/UX designer: $82,500 (in the US) and $40,000 (worldwide) Managed services delivery: $77,500 (in the US) and $50,000 (worldwide) Tester/QA: $75,000 (in the US) and $40,000 (worldwide)

One of the major buckets in cost to company is learning and development, with 8.5% of the time of technical resources time being allocated to them.

The survey also talked about the source of talent and how companies ended up selecting talent for Azure. Referrals is the biggest source, with 70% of Azure talent coming in from this channel, while LinkedIn serves as the second largest, with a sourcing percentage of 59%. Website (47%), local universities (38%), local tech groups (36%) and competitor recruitment (30%) form the rest.

The cloud is a fast-growing field and respondents were also questioned about what cloud services their companies are engaged in over the past two years. Cloud infrastructure and management practice (78%) / cloud application development practice (53%) emerged as the dominant ones while mobility and security (46%) and data platform and analytics (43%) came next.

Out of the 1136 survey respondents, 513 were Microsoft partners. The Azure-focus for these partners is self-evidentthey reported that 20% of overall revenue was driven by the cloud. They reiterated that expectations from cloud for the future were high, and that they expect the proportion of the cloud in overall revenue to more than double in the next two years, to 47%.

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One of the biggest challenges for IT professionals is changing the culture of the workplace with new cloud applications, according to Greg Urban, chief operating officer for the state of Maryland.

When the IT department plans to bring in an updated version of an application that state workers are used to, the technology professionals try to get input from the users.

It cant be something IT is doing to you, Urban said. It has to be something the agency is doing to help itself.

Urban said that often, state employees will get used to working with a certain application that they know how to manipulate to do what they need, even if its impractical.

It may be completely convoluted but it got them where they wanted, Urban said. The hard part is changing behaviors of the employees.

Maryland deployed multiple small cloud-based applications along with Google Apps for Government across the entire state because the services were more accessible, provided mobility to employees, and enabled scalability. Urban said that when the Federal government unveiled its cloud-first initiative, Maryland didnt want to go straight to the cloud for no other reason than being told to do so.

We did not have that same mind-set, Urban said.

The state was particularly driven to the cloud because the workforce became more mobile and needed to use state applications in any location, rather than only sitting at a desk in a government building. The applications that the state used before didnt provide that capability, whereas cloud applications are built with that requirement in mind.

Maryland chose to adopt Software-as-a-Service because cloud vendors had specific solutions to the states needs. According to Urban, in order for the IT department to understand the states needs, the agencies focus on building relationships, trust, and respect.

Its really important to understand the missions of the agencies we support so we can be a partner with them, Urban said.

He said that government could work better with the private sector by changing the procurement process in order to foster new solutions and take responsibility for risk. When governments create contracts with cloud companies, often they try to transfer all of the risk to the private sector, when in reality, the risk often still falls to the government and the contracts become too expensive. Urban said that government entities need to assume the responsibility that comes with their data, which would make procurement less complicated.

As a data owner, we still inherently own those risks, said Urban.

Also, when government agencies draw up contracts, they shouldnt focus on what technologies they want the companies to use because there could be a newer and more effective solution available.

We tell people how to build things and we dont say what we want as a result, Urban said.

Instead, agencies could tell companies what theyre looking to solve and companies could come to them with their own technologies and ways to get there.

Urban said that getting advice from other state governments about cloud is a good step, but IT professionals should also look into what the private sector is doing because companies could also provide good solutions that the government might not have thought about.

We need to expand our birds-of-a-feather circle, Urban said.

In order to convince agency heads to focus on IT spending, technologists should talk about the security factors that come with the cloud, educate employees on the new solutions, and connect IT changes to the states mission. For example, a new cloud-based website could be more user-friendly for citizens looking to connect with the government.

This is really the challenge that were always focused on in IT, Urban said. How can we make citizens lives better?

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Hospital executives are still concerned about putting health data in the cloud but there is a growing consensus among security specialists that the fears are not as necessary as they once were.

That was among the overarching themes to emerge from the Healthcare IT News Cloud Computing Forum here at HIMSS17 on Sunday.

Nephi Walton, for instance, threw down the gauntlet: Security concerns about the cloud are valid but I challenge you to look at your own organizations and see how secure they actually are.

Walton, a biomedical informaticist at the Washington University School of Medicine, posted that to attendees.

Thats not to say storing personal health information or personally-identifiable information in the cloud is a simple matter.

Beaufort Memorial CIO Ed Ricks said that theres no such thing as a HIPAA-compliant solution.

I always pause when a vendor says they are HIPAA compliant, added Anahi Santiago, CISO of Christiana Care Health System. HIPAA is based on risk management.

Santiago said that risk management requires constant reevaluation of vendors and policies. Chlidrens National Medical Center IT security director Chad Wilson added the devil is in the details of contracting.

You really have to build a relationship with that company and understand their framework, Wilson said.

Ricks, Santiago, Walton and Wilson, its worth noting, all already have applications and data in the cloud. Christiana, in fact, implemented a cloud-first strategy for new apps and technologies.

Anything is doable on the security front, Santiago said, explaining that Christiana demands certifications such as HITRUST or ISO and looks at SOC II reports, among other policies and procedures, from any vendors they work with.

Kristin Chu, director of information services at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center said that ultimately providers responsibility is not all that much different than protecting data anywhere they store it but recommended moving cautiously.

We did it very slowly and vetted it. It was successful over the course of months, Chu said. Cloud is key to our future. My advice: Get in and persevere in the process.

Washington Universitys Walton said that many people in healthcare are inhibited by security concerns but dont even realize how much data they actually have in the cloud already.

Im sure people are targeting Amazon, Google and Microsoft but because they get that all the time theyre more prepared to defend against it, Walton said. Youre hard pressed to match the same security as one of these companies.

HIMSS17runs from Feb. 19-23, 2017 at the Orange County Convention Center.

This article is part of our ongoing coverage of HIMSS17. VisitDestination HIMSS17for previews, reporting live from the show floor and after the conference.

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