Abstract

• The dedicated cloud services market will further develop: The COVID-19 pandemic restricts the development of the dedicated cloud services market, but its overall negative impact is limited. The pandemic promotes the accelerated implementation and development of digital and service-oriented governments. With this, more applications benefiting the people and industries enable the development of government cloud services to have more refined operations and government-dedicated cloud services toward diversification. In addition, as the 14th Five-Year Plan is gradually entering the implementation stage and more smart service initiatives keep advancing, the dedicated cloud services market will further develop to a new level.
• The dedicated cloud services market will expand to more industries: The implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan will accelerate the digital transformation (DX) process for traditional enterprises. For traditional enterprises, the main demand for cloud migration is how to migrate to cloud based on security, compliance, and speed; shift from capex to opex; save on IT spending; and accelerate the success of DX on top of meeting customization needs. Dedicated cloud services can address the cloud migration needs of traditional organizations, expanding from the government to healthcare, industry, transportation, energy, and other industries.
• Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly favoring dedicated cloud services: SMBs pay more attention to the cloud migration of "asset-light + security, compliance". Dedicated cloud services can package and provide the underlying hardware, security, cloud platforms, cloud applications, and other standard products of cloud to an SMB exclusively in the form of "plug and play X-as-a-service", which meets not only the need for fast and light cloud migration of these businesses but also the security and data compliance requirements, making it ideal for more SMBs to move to cloud.

"As enterprises move toward digital transformation, their business innovations and business outcomes become increasingly reliant on the development and use of innovative technologies and services anytime and anywhere, and cloud is an important basis for meeting this demand. The value of the overall market composed of hardware, software, and cloud services supporting the cloud supply chain as well as cloud-related professional and management services will exceed RMB1 trillion by 2025, reshaping the entire IT hardware, software, and service ecosystem," said Rachel Liu, associate research director of Enterprise Research, IDC China.

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