This IDC study provides a detailed analysis of the public cloud computing spending in China, including market accelerators and inhibitors as well as the market breakdown by application, vertical industry, horizontal segment, and regional hotspot. In addition, the study provides 2012–2016 forecast for the market and a comparison of the current and previous forecasts.

"IDC believes that public cloud computing spending will increase dramatically in the next few years. Although most SMB users will consider adopting their applications on the public cloud platform, telecom operators and dot com companies will provide public cloud services to a large number of consumers," says Thomas Zhou, senior research manager, Enterprise System and Software, IDC China.