As spend on global cloud infrastructure services surges, seeing a 32 percent increase in the final quarter of 2020, Canalys has highlighted the IT channel as having a major role in supporting this growth.
Global expenditure was US$39.9 billion in the last quarter of 2020, US$3 billion higher than the third quarter and nearly US$10 billion more than Q4 2019, according to data from Canalys.
Microsoft Azure’s growth rate accelerated once again, up by 50 percent to reach 20 percent of the market share, maintaining its second-place.
This was thanks to the high demand for Teams, Windows Virtual Desktop and other Microsoft services that lockdowns brought, as well as targeted incentives for channel partners.