Taiwan’s cloud computing market to reach NT$6.21 billion in 2010
Taipei, Nov.24 (CNA) Taiwan’s “cloud computing” services market is estimated to reach NT$5.56 billion (US$172 million) for 2009, up 12.8 percent from last year, and to hit NT$6.21 billion in 2010, a well-known market research institute said Tuesday.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS), which provides co-location and security operation center services, will occupy the bulk of the cloud computing market for 2009 with an amount of NT$5.07 billion, according to the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC).
Meanwhile, the Software-as-a-Service(SaaS), which provides online software solutions such as Salesforce.com CRM and Cisco WebEx, will account for NT$487 million of the cloud computing market in 2009, the MIC said.
Lin Hsin-heng, an industry analyst at MIC, said that nearly 35 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan are using cloud computing services.
Citing the results of an MIC survey that was conducted between Nov. 2008 and Jan. 2009, Lin said most SMEs use cloud computing because of its flexibility in terms of deployment and low investment risks.
Lin said that companies with fewer information technology engineers tend to employ more cloud computing services.
Cloud computing is a Web-enabled software solution that uses the Internet as a platform for performing tasks on the computer and delivers a range of inter-operable applications.
