In a study for the European Commission, the Pierre Audoin Consultants office (PAC) analyzed the growth of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offers (infrastructure, platform and software as a service).

A growing Market- Cloud computing offers will increase in the coming years. In 2009, in spite of the crisis, the market has reached 4 billion in Europe with a 20% growth.By 2015, this share should increase up to 13%.

The Cloud: an anti-crisis solution-This growth should be boosted by the crisis. Indeed, falling back on pooled infrastructures and softwares sold as services is a way to avoid heavy investments. With SaaS, even when you start a new project, these expensive investments can be circled. In addition, pooling resources allows a lower total cost.

References :

• Study on "Economic and social impact of Software and Software based Services"

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