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50 IT Facts That You Didn’t Know Were True
Posted on June 16, 2022
By ICORPS Technologies
Advantages of Cloud Computing
- More than 90% of global enterprises will rely on hybrid cloud in 2022
- Cloud computing is the #1 most in-demand hard skill according to LinkedIn
- DropBox continues to be the largest cloud storage provider in the United States at 47%
- Medium-sized businesses found it 40% more cost-effective to employ third-party cloud platforms
- 48% of businesses plan to migrate to the cloud in 2022
- On average, businesses use 2.6 public and 2.7 private clouds
- 36% of enterprises spend more than $12 million per year on public clouds
- 61% of organizations plan to optimize the existing use cloud and make it a top initiative
- Three top public cloud providers are AWS, Azure, and Google
- Cloud data centers processed 94% of all workloads in 2021
- The cloud computing market is projected to reach $832.1 billion by 2025
- By 2026, AI spending is predicted to increase to $309.6 billion
- Enterprises invested an average of $3.5 million in cloud software in 2021
- 30% of all IT budgets are allocated to cloud computing
Data Backup and Recovery
- 88% of businesses believe that the public cloud will play a role in their future backup strategies
- The remote desktop software market will reach $4.69 billion by 2027
- 81% of all enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy
- The most popular free cloud storage service is iCloud and Dropbox
- The adoption of cloud services will increase the need for additional IT infrastructure
- 84% of enterprises describe their IT infrastructure as “multi-cloud”
- 80% of companies report a positive impact of cloud technology within the first few months of adoption
- 94% of businesses report significant improvements in online security after moving data into the cloud
- Cloud computing SaaS market segment is predicted to reach $138.3 billion
- By 2025, IT executives expect that 30% of business’s workloads will reside in the cloud and 28% will be in the public cloud
- 50% of all corporate data is kept in the cloud
- 75% of businesses are concerned with cloud safety problems
- Cloud misconfiguration is the main difficulty in terms of cloud security
Data Breach Prevention
- The average cost of a data breach in the United States increased from $6.75 to $8.64 million from 2010 – 2020
- 49% of businesses plan to replace their existing backup and disaster recovery systems with cloud backup within the next 3 years
- Only 9% of companies think data protection modernization isn’t an important initiative
- As of 2021, only 54% of businesses had a disaster recovery plan in place for their organization
- 73% of companies experienced system failures or outages at some point
- 33% of business folders aren’t protected in any way
- 97% of data is recovered after a ransomware attack with proper data backup systems in place
- The average cost of downtime is $5,600 per minute
- 96% of businesses experienced an outage in a 3 year period
- 28% of data breaches in 2020 involved malware
Iot Devices and Technology Trends
- The IoT market is expected to reach $1.3 billion by 2026
- Telecom services holds the largest share of the IT market at 26%, followed by devices and infrastructure at 23%, and software at 12%.
- The IT area that is predicted to have the largest growth is enterprise software sales
- In 2021 there were over 10 billion active IoT devices
- By 2025 there will be 152,200 IoT devices connecting to the internet per minute
- By 2025, IoT solutions will generate around $4 – 11 trillion in economic value
- The amount of data generated by IoT devices is expected to reach 73.1 Zettabytes (ZB) by 2025
- 32% of internet users worldwide are 25-34 years
- Chrome web browser is used by 65.9% of internet users worldwide
- There are around 7 million blog posts published per day
- The online advertising market is expected to reach $763.6 billion by 2025
- 47% of internet users globally use some kind of ad-blocker
- 30,000 websites are hacked every day