London - 31st March 2014 - TCL (Tariff Consultancy Ltd) launches a new report, which examines cloud computing pricing, trends & demand worldwide.
Called Pricing the Cloud - Cloud computing services including public, private & hybrid clouds worldwide – from the end of 2014 to the end of 2019, the report compares the main pricing from public vendors globally, with virtualized CPU, storage and bandwidth components.
Cloud computing services are typically being offered on a per hour or a per GB basis for virtualized computing power, storage and bandwidth. Providers are offering services based on a simple hourly rate based on a per GB or per unit of computing power or per defined Computing Instance.
The report finds that public cloud computing pricing is becoming increasingly competitive, with price reductions averaging 10 per cent per annum, with private (dedicated) cloud services also seeing a decline in pricing – as new virtualized services with a high degree of automation are being made available even for the SME enterprise.
Providers such as Microsoft Azure and Google are reducing their core pricing in order to compete with Amazon EC2, the market leader in public cloud computing with up to five times the computing power of its competitors and revenues of in excess of USD $5 billion per annum – estimated for 2014.
And the established software providers, including Oracle and IBM, are introducing cloud-based services as an alternative to conventional licenced software, with IBM alone reporting that it provides in excess of 100 SaaS services as of the end of 2013.
The number of cloud service providers are growing, with local providers active in each country market with hosting, telecoms, IT services and software backgrounds all offering cloud services frequently using a white label service from AWS, Microsoft or Google, or developing their own cloud platform from virtualization specialist VMware.
Furthermore, the use of a web-based portal and a high degree of service automation and virtualized software, which enables a high number of options to be included for enterprises allowing for a degree of customization – with SunGard Online for example claiming over 200 cloud computing options that can be assembled from its own web portal.
And hosting providers, including French provider OVH, are offering OVH vCloud as a Service (based on a VMware platform) which can be ordered via a web portal for a fixed monthly fee from USD $968 (including vCPU, RAM & dedicated disk space with capacity of up to 10,000 Virtual Machines (VMs) per user available. Private cloud services are now receiving the same degree of automation and price reduction as public cloud services.
The TCL Pricing the Cloud report highlights the following key cloud pricing trends:
And TCL projects that global public cloud revenue is to increase by an average of 34 per cent per annum for the five year period from the end of 2014 from USD $28.2 billion - up to USD $76.3 billion as of the end of 2019.
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About the TCL Pricing the Cloud – Cloud computing service pricing including public, private & hybrid clouds worldwide – from the end of 2014 to the end of 2019 report – The report provides coverage of global public cloud pricing with a comparison of virtual CPU, storage and bandwidth pricing for the key providers. It provides examples of pricing trends and a forecast for cloud computing pricing and revenues over the 5 year period from 2014 to 2019. The report costs GBP 1,495 for the single user licence. Further information on the report can be found on the TCL website at: www.telecomspricing.com
About TCL (Tariff Consultancy Ltd) – TCL is a London-based tariff consultancy and research organization, which specializes in the analysis and tracking of tariffs worldwide. TCL publishes a number of reports and Tariff Tracker subscription services which examine the fixed line, mobile and Data Centre segments as well as bespoke consultancy projects. Further information on TCL and its services can be found on the TCL website at: www.telecomspricing.com