Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker

IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker® monitors the evolving and shifting competitive dynamics of the public cloud services market. It tracks and measures the individual public cloud services providers' historical business performance and forecasts five years into the future — across 53 geographies and 85 discrete market segments. This extensive coverage of vendor share information enables both global and local players to benchmark themselves in terms of business growth and market penetration. Software vendors, systems integrators, value-added resellers, distributors, investors, and other users will be able to keep track of the market performance of main competitors such as Alibaba, Oracle, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services as well as identify the newcomers to the market and measure the impact and potential of those new players on the competitive landscape.

Technology Coverage

This tracker provides the total market size and vendor share of 85 discrete market segments. The measurement for this tracker is revenue. The following section lists the secondary markets that groupthe 85 discrete markets.

Core Coverage

Deployment group: Cloud software and cloud infrastructure
Deployment category: PaaS, SaaS — applications, SaaS — system infrastructure software, and IaaS
Secondary markets:

Analytics and business intelligence software
Application development software
Application platforms
Artificial intelligence platforms
Storage (IaaS)
Collaborative applications
Content workflow and management applications
Customer relationship management (CRM) applications
Data management software
Endpoint management
Engineering applications
Enterprise resource management (ERM) applications
Integration and orchestration middleware
Networking (IaaS)
Production and operations applications
Physical and virtual computing software
Security software
Compute (IaaS)
Software quality and life-cycle tools
Storage software
Supply chain management (SCM) applications
System and service management software

Geographic Scope

Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (13): Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the rest of Asia/Pacific
Canada
Central and Eastern Europe (6): Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, and the rest of CEE
Japan
Latin America (8): Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and the rest of Latin America
Middle East and Africa (6): Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the rest of Middle East and Africa
PRC
United States
Western Europe (16): Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom

Data Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a semiannual basis via a web-based interface for online querying and downloads. The following are the deliverables for this tracker. For a complete delivery schedule, please contact an IDC sales representative.

Half-year vendor shares by market by geography
Annual five-year forecasts by market by geography

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include five years of annual forecasts. Forecasts are available at the worldwide, regional, and country levels. Details of the forecasts included in this tracker are as follows.

Core Forecast Coverage