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Gartner warns about top cloud players “influence”

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The top 10 public cloud providers are getting bigger and will have rather a lot of influence and power in the IaaS space, according to analyst outfit Gartner.

The market leaders will grow their market share to 70 percent this year, according to Gartner, which has warned against the industry’s top players gaining an “unchecked influence” on the IaaS space.

Public cloud revenues will jump by 21 percent year on year in 2018, pushing total sales to $186.4 billion.

The fastest-growing segment of the market remains infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), claims Gartner, which is forecast to grow 36 percent to total $40.8 billion in sales in 2018.

The most lucrative segments cloud application services (SaaS), which is set to generate $73.6 billion in revenues in the same time frame. By 2021, SaaS is expected to make up 45 percent of the entire cloud market.

Gartner also found that despite an increasing number of firms moving into the cloud space, the top 10 public cloud giants are set to swell their market share from 50 percent in 2016 to 70 percent by 2021.

Research director at Gartner Sid Nag said that while a buoyant market creates enormous opportunities for end users, firms should be wary of the increasing dominance of hyperscale IaaS providers.

“While [cloud] enables efficiencies and cost benefits, organisations need to be cautious about IaaS providers potentially gaining unchecked influence over customers and the market,” he said.

“Although these large vendors have different strengths, and customers feel comfortable that they will be able to meet their current and future needs, other database-as-a-service (dbPaaS) offerings may be good choices for organisations looking to avoid lock-in.”

PM Cameron wants more apprenticeships

DCApprenticeships could become the “new norm” for school kids who choose not to get into debt by going to university if the Prime Minister has his way.

Clearly impressed by Donald Trump and Alan Sugar who have pushed these schemes into the limelight, David Cameron has said he now wants to see this training sitting “at the heart” of the government’s mission to rebuild the economy.

The PM will now call on the industry to make these schemes available to school leavers when he visits a training academy in Buckinghamshire.

The moves come as National Apprenticeship Week kicks off today. And it is clear Cameron wants to show he’s doing something for this, showing that his party is committed to helping teens get into work.

According to Whitehall, more than 500,000 people started an apprenticeship between 2011 and 2012.  The Centre for Economics and Business Research have also claimed that  completed apprenticeships over the next 10 years could contribute up to £3.4 billion a year to the UK economy through productivity gains by 2022.

Cameron is expected to claim that schemes such as these give school leavers the chance to learn a trade and build their careers which in turn helps boost the economy.

He will also tell MPs that they need to look at how apprenticeships can be expanded so they are available to all.