Cloud computing service sees big increase across world this year

With its popularity seeing a big increase in large, small and medium companies, cloud computing, specifically software-as-a-service, has grown over 20 percent across the world this year and will continue its huge growth over the next four years, according to a new Gartner study…



Gartner said SaaS has grown 20.7 percent since last year when it made $10 billion. The North American region is where the service is most popular, and is forecast to take over 63.6 percent of the SaaS worldwide revenue by 2015. Sharon Mertz, research director for Gartner, said that the increasing familiarity with the mode, oversight on IT budgets and the growth in popularity of cloud computing across the world were among the reasons for its growth this year.

Mertz said the majority of the growth in Europe has taken place in the north where English is the primary language.

"This is due to a culturally open outlook toward technology adoption, well-established and generally good Internet infrastructure within these countries, and English being the primary business language," Mertz said. "This also makes it much easier for North American vendors to branch out into the region and for local vendors in one country to adapt and sell their applications in other Northern European countries with less localization effort."