This IDC study provides a detailed analysis of both public and private cloud computing markets, including market accelerators and inhibitors, and market breakdown by application, industry, horizontal segment, and region. This study also provides 2010–2015 forecast for both public and private cloud markets, and introduces the trends in the virtual private cloud market.

"IDC believes both public cloud and private cloud computing will experience dramatic growth in the next few years. SMB users will begin to deploy their applications on the public cloud platform. Large enterprise users will consolidate their infrastructure and move on to private cloud. Virtual private cloud is also is one of their choices," says Thomas Zhou, research manager, Enterprise System and Software research, IDC China.