ComputerWeekly: A new report from IDC says that the market for cloud management software will hit $2.5 billion by 2015--that's a 45.5 percent compound annual growth rate. The report also says that while IT spending in general will grow 6 percent this year, spending on public cloud services will grow 5 times as fast.
So far, North America accounts for most of the worldwide cloud management software market--63 percent in 2011.