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The cloud market has no corona crisis, like data from Statista Technology Market Outlook show. As a result, sales with software, infrastructure and platform-as-a-service offerings fell last year by 25, 5 Percent grown. And it should continue at this pace 2021. Every second public cloud euro – combined 152, 4 billion – is turned over in the USA, as the infographic from Statista and Technology Review shows .

More than half of this is in the Software-as-a-Service segment. This is a sales model for the provision of software applications via the web browser.

In the area of ​​Infrastructure-as-a-Service it should 33 , 7 billion euros. According to the analysts, similarly high revenues could be generated with platform-as-a-service offers.

With 12, 2 billion euros a comparatively modest volume – but that’s still enough for 5th place in the ranking of the largest public cloud markets.

According to Bitkom, three quarters of companies in this country already use cloud computing. The world’s largest providers of cloud offerings for the western market are Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle and Google. The Alibaba Cloud is a major player in China. (bsc)