A SUBSIDIARY of the information and communications technology (ICT) of PLDT Inc. announced the launch of a “vendor-agnostic” forum it calls “CloudComPH.” IP Converge Data Services Inc. said in a statement the company created the cloud community “to serve as a venue for the sharing of ideas and best practices, whether technical or operational, among individuals who build, develop, maintain and use cloud-computing infrastructure, platforms and applications in the Philippines.”
The launch came after the International Data Corp. (IDC) forecast total spending on IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage and Ethernet switches) for deployment in cloud environments will increase by 15.5 percent this year to reach $37.1 billion.
IDC said while spending on enterprise IT infrastructure deployed in traditional, non-cloud, environments will decline by 4.4 percent in 2016, this will still account for the largest share, 63.4 percent, of end-user spending.
IDC said spending on private cloud IT infrastructure will grow by 10.3 percent year over year to $13.8 billion, with more than 60 percent of this amount contributed by on-premises private cloud environments. Spending on public cloud IT infrastructure will increase by 18.8 percent in 2016 to $23.3 billion.
All regions are expected to increase spending on cloud IT infrastructure this year with investments in public cloud growing at a faster rate than investments in private cloud IT infrastructure, according to IDC.
“Overall, we will continue to see steady growth in demand for public cloud services and, as a result, underlying spending on IT infrastructure by [communications service providers],” IDC Storage Systems Research Director Natalya Yezhkova was quoted in a statement as saying.
“The economic and financial volatility we see in some regions will push demand further as increasing sophistication of public cloud offerings allows organizations to fulfill their needs across a growing variety of IT domains while operational expense-oriented pricing models provide some relief to tightening IT budgets.”
We envision a bustling Philippine economy powered by the Cloud,W Niño Valmonte, director of product management and marketing at IPC, was quoted in a statement as saying.
“Because our country is still an emerging market for enterprise Cloud services, we felt that there is a need for a venue where Filipino businessmen, entrepreneurs and ICT enthusiasts can learn the true benefits of the Cloud from one another and apply these learnings into their respective initiatives,” Valmonte added.