{"id":661082,"date":"2013-05-30T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=650573"},"modified":"2013-05-30T13:46:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:46:06","slug":"surprised-cloud-providers-bring-in-2b-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661082","title":{"rendered":"Surprised? Cloud providers bring in $2B in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given all the hoopla surrounding cloud computing it, it\u2019s not surprising that revenue from cloud services is growing. Total worldwide revenue from top Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service players hit $2 billion for the first quarter of 2013. That\u2019s up a healthy 56 percent from the year ago period, according to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/press-release\/cloud-boom-continues-as-quarterly-iaas-paas-revenues-exceed-2b-1796359.htm\">\u00a0Synergy Research Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers factor in AWS and Amazon\u2019s Elastic Beanstalk on the PaaS side; Google App Engine; IBM\u2019s SmartCloud and SmartCloud Application Services; Microsoft Azure and Cloud Services for Windows Azure; Salesforce.com\u2019s Heroku and Force.com (but not its bigger Software-as-a-Service applications business.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:19px;\">Key takeaways:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon Web Services remains alone atop the heap with \u00a027 percent of total IaaS and PaaS revenue in Q1, up from 24.7 percent for the year-ago period.<\/li>\n<li>Salesforce.com is second largest but\u00a0it\u2019s revenue share decline year over year to 6.8 percent from 7.9 percent.<\/li>\n<li>North America accounts for more than half the worldwide IaaS\/PaaS revenue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/05\/30\/surprised-cloud-providers-bring-in-2b-in-first-quarter\/cis-q113\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-650578\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CIS Q113\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/cis-q113.jpg?w=708\"   class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-650578\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These figures won\u2019t surprise folks who already see Amazon Web Services at a $2 billion-a-year revenue rate. Morgan Stanley thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/05\/29\/killer-cloud-report-says-amazon-web-services-threatens-all-it-incumbents\/\">AWS alone will hit $24 billion in revenue<\/a> in the next decade. While other players \u2014 Microsoft, IBM, Google and Fujitsu all saw slight growth. \u00a0Some of the major telcos\u00a0\u2013 AT&amp;T, NTT and Verizon \u2014 were off slightly year over year.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers beg the question of whether anyone can catch Amazon. Google\u00a0just made its <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/05\/16\/so-google-compute-engine-is-out-your-move-amazon\/\">Google Compute Engine <\/a>IaaS generally available, and Microsoft launched its <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/04\/16\/at-long-last-microsoft-is-ready-to-compete-head-on-with-amazon-web-services\/\">Azure IaaS capabilities in April<\/a>.\u00a0Those well-funded entries along with VMware\u2019s hybrid cloud service coming online, will pose more competition for the AWS monolith.<\/p>\n<p>AWS \u00a0boosters say the company\u2019s 6-year-head start makes it invincible, but many workloads have yet to migrate: IDC estimates that just 5 percent of total IT spend is now in the cloud. That leaves lots of upside opportunity for the companies who delivers the best, most flexible and cost efficient services.<\/p>\n<p>Who that might be is up in the air, but one place you can hear all about the top candidates will be at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/event.gigaom.com\/structure\/?utm_source=cloud&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=intext&amp;utm_term=650573+surprised-cloud-providers-bring-in-2b-in-first-quarter&amp;utm_content=gigabarb\">GigaOM\u2019s Structure<\/a>\u00a0where\u00a0a list of cloud powerhouses including VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and Microsoft Server and Tools group president Satya Nadella will all be on hand to talk up their companies\u2019 cloud strategies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/05\/30\/surprised-cloud-providers-bring-in-2b-in-first-quarter\/cloudrevchart\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-650585\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cloudrevchart\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/cloudrevchart.jpg?w=708\"   class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-650585\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=14960843&#038;%23038;post=650573&#038;%23038;subd=gigaom2&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&#038;%23038;c=668\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&#038;%23038;c=668\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:<\/strong><br \/>Subscriber content. <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=650573+surprised-cloud-providers-bring-in-2b-in-first-quarter&#038;utm_content=gigabarb\">Sign up for a free trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2011\/05\/the-structure-50-the-top-50-cloud-innovators\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=650573+surprised-cloud-providers-bring-in-2b-in-first-quarter&#038;utm_content=gigabarb\">The Structure 50: The Top 50 Cloud Innovators<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2012\/10\/metered-it-the-path-to-utility-computing\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=650573+surprised-cloud-providers-bring-in-2b-in-first-quarter&#038;utm_content=gigabarb\">Metered IT: the path to utility computing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2012\/07\/cloud-and-data-second-quarter-2012-analysis-and-outlook-2\/?utm_source=cloud&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_campaign=auto3&#038;utm_term=650573+surprised-cloud-providers-bring-in-2b-in-first-quarter&#038;utm_content=gigabarb\">Takeaways from the second quarter in cloud and data<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=hg931x690iI:NF0pSJ3MKyw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/hg931x690iI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given all the hoopla surrounding cloud computing it, it\u2019s not surprising that revenue from cloud services is growing. Total worldwide revenue from top Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service players hit $2 billion for the first quarter of 2013. That\u2019s up a healthy 56 percent from the year ago period, according to\u00a0Synergy Research Group. 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