Healthcare Spending On Infrastructure as a Service to Touch $518 Million Mark by 2015

A recent innovation conducted by In-Stat indicates that healthcare, which has been a growth vertical in U.S. business markets, will spend $518 million on IaaS in 2015. The healthcare and social services vertical includes companies that provide ambulatory healthcare services, hospitals, nursing and residential care facilities, and social assistance for individuals.

In 2010, the overall telecom spending by the healthcare and social services vertical was just in accordance with $16 billion. Wireless, amounting to about 40 percent of telecom spending, is the largest of the product categories during cloud computing and managed services are the fasting growing component. Wireline data and wireline voice constitute the remaining telecom spending.

The healthcare vertical segment

"The healthcare vertical segment, across all sizes of business, and across near all product groups, is fast becoming the most robust business vertical segment in US business markets. Demand for cloud computing services in particular has exploded and we see nothing that would indicate that the trend won’t continue until further notice through 2015," said Greg Potter, analyst, in a release.

Other information provided in the innovation report indicates that small businesses employing 20 to 99 employees will record more than 35 percent growth and will be the fastest growing segment in healthcare by 2015. Enterprise wireless spending in healthcare will as well witness a 12 percent growth from 2010 to 2011 during healthcare public cloud computing spending will cross the $1 billion mark in 2013.

The In-Stat innovation report

The In-Stat innovation report, Healthcare and Social Services Spending on Telecom Services: Wireline Voice, Wireline Data, Wireless, Cloud Computing, and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) by Size of Business, forecasts U.S. business telecom spending for the 2010-2015 period. The technology provides extensive forecasts on product category, size of business, corporate liable spending, and individual liable spending.

Detail included in the technology is for Wireless Data, Wireless Handsets, and Wireless Voice Services. It as well includes information on Local Services, Domestic Long Distance, International Long Distance, Toll-Free Services, Other Services; Application-Based VoIP, Broadband IP Telephony, Hosted IP PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange), Premises-Based IP PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange), TDM Centrex, TDM PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange), and Traditional TDM; Public Cloud Services: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS; Co-Located Services, and Dedicated Server Services and ATM, Ethernet, Frame Relay, Cable, DSL, IP VPN, MPLS, T1/T3, Other Services.

Forecasts provided are based on size-of-business segments and sub-segments: These include home offices with 1 to 4 employees, small offices with 1 to 4 employees, small businesses employing 5 to 9 employees, 10 to 19 employees, and 20 to 99 employees. It as well includes mid-sized business with 100 to 499 employees and 500 to 999 employees and business enterprises with 1,000 to 4,999 employees, 5,000 to 9,999 employees, and 10,000 or more employees.