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Global Public Cloud Services Growth Opportunities
Convergence of AI and Cloud Accelerates Future Transformational Growth
18-Feb-2022
Global
Market Research
PCC9-01-00-00-00
IT04478-GL-MT_26290
This Frost & Sullivan research examines the strategic positioning of public cloud service providers to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and monetize their service offerings. The report highlights the growing importance of public cloud providers in the AI ecosystem, given the increasing shift in enterprise and consumer data residing in the cloud. Cloud service providers aim to leverage their scalable compute and storage infrastructure capabilities to move up the value chain and offer AI tools and technologies.
The report identifies two channels for cloud service providers to monetize AI offerings—by addressing key AI implementation challenges and enabling application development through tools and prebuilt AI services. Survey findings show that the public cloud will emerge as a major AI deployment model followed by the edge model. The report identifies four growth opportunity areas for public cloud service providers to create an AI-driven competitive advantage: improving scalability, performance, and speed; aligning future growth strategy with the edge environment; developing the ability to support machine learning and deep learning workloads; and strengthening hardware and infrastructure capabilities.
Why is it Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
The Strategic Imperative 8™
The Impact of the Top Three Strategic Imperatives on Public Cloud Services
Growth Opportunities Fuel the Growth Pipeline Engine™
Enterprises are Becoming Data Centric
Organizations Perceive Cloud as an Essential Technology
Why Organizations Choose to Deploy Apps in the Public Cloud
Public Cloud Service Providers Play a Pivotal Role in the AI Ecosystem
Why Cloud Service Providers Are Emerging as a Key Point of Contact to Procure AI Solutions
Monetizing the AI Growth Opportunity
1. Cloud Service Providers are Well Positioned in the Data Ecosystem to Address Key AI Implementation Challenges
1. Cloud Service Providers are Well Positioned in the Data Ecosystem to Address Key AI Implementation Challenges (continued)
2. Cloud Service Providers Enable Application Development Using Tools and Pre-built AI Services
2. Cloud Service Providers Enable Application Development Using Tools and Pre-built AI Services (continued)
AI Growth Strategy
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (continued)
Google Cloud
Google Cloud (continued)
Microsoft
Microsoft (continued)
Public Cloud to Emerge as a Major AI Deployment Model
Critical Steps for Public Cloud Service Providers to Create AI-driven Competitive Advantages
Public Cloud Service Providers Must Leverage AI to Meet Evolving Customer Needs and Improve Operational Capabilities
Growth Opportunity 1: Leveraging AI for Secure Public Cloud
Growth Opportunity 1: Leveraging AI for Secure Public Cloud (continued)
Growth Opportunity 2: Strengthening Hardware or Infrastructure Capabilities to Support AI Workloads
Growth Opportunity 2: Strengthening Hardware or Infrastructure Capabilities to Support AI Workloads (continued)
Respondent Profile
List of Exhibits
Legal Disclaimer
List of Figures
- Percentage of Structured, Semi, and Unstructured Data in Organizations, Global, 2021, 2023 and 2025
- Organizations’ Mindset About the Cloud, Selected Industries, Global, 2021
- Reasons for Choosing Public Cloud Instead of Other Deployment Options, Global, 2021
- Mode of AI Solutions Procurement, Global, 2021
- AI Implementation Challenges, Global, 2021
- Third-party Services Enterprises Rely On, Global, 2021
- Main AI Deployment Model, Global, 2021–2025
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| Deliverable Type | Market Research |
|---|---|
| Author | Hemangi Patel |
| GPS Codes | 9705-C1,9658 |
| Industries | Information Technology |
| No Index | No |
| Is Prebook | No |
| List of Charts and Figures | Percentage of Structured, Semi, and Unstructured Data in Organizations, Global, 2021, 2023 and 2025~ Organizations’ Mindset About the Cloud, Selected Industries, Global, 2021~ Reasons for Choosing Public Cloud Instead of Other Deployment Options, Global, 2021~ Mode of AI Solutions Procurement, Global, 2021~ AI Implementation Challenges, Global, 2021~ Third-party Services Enterprises Rely On, Global, 2021~ Main AI Deployment Model, Global, 2021–2025~ |
| Podcast | No |
| WIP Number | PCC9-01-00-00-00 |
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