Last week J’son & Partners Consulting, a leading Russian tech consulting agency, released a report on the Russian cloud IaaS solution market.
For 2012, the IaaS market reached 1.24 billion rubles (approximately $41 million), up 226% from 2011, while the annual growth rate of the secondary hosting market and commercial DPC did not exceed 30%. Such high growth indicates increased demand for IaaS services on the Russian market. It also shows that more and more companies are switching to the cloud infrastructure.
According to J’son & Partners Consulting, Saint Petersburg had the most massive penetration of IaaS services in January 2013 at 4%. Moscow was second on the list with 3.8% penetration. Penetration of IaaS services in all the other large Russian cities amounted to 1% or less.
The cloud IaaS services market is expected become more and more popular in Russia each year. According to J’son & Partners Consulting, by 2017 the market will reach not less than eight billion rubles (aproximately $250 million). At the same time, the average annual growth rate for the period of 2012 – 2017 will total 45%.
A survey of potential users showed that many still do not trust cloud services. For example, potential cloud service users in Russia do not completely understand payment and billing methods. They still do not fully trust the technology and lack confidence in the security of information. Dependence on Internet access and particular provider also be strong barriers. On the other hand, reduction in the price of cloud services may encourage market growth.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the automatic or on demand provision of data-center infrastructure elements (processing capacity, storage, network settings) and network resources (bandwidth reservations, VPN, etc.) supporting corporate-class SLA by availability parameters, performance and security. IaaS services are designed to replace and supplement secondary hosting services and commercial data processing center (DPC) services.
Please click here to download the main findings of the report. A more detailed version is available on a paid basis.
