2015 saw the cloud industry mature as a whole, with growth across private, public and hybrid cloud.

28 per cent overall, according to Synergy Research. [1]

Synergy Research Group’s chief analyst Jeremy Duke commented on their research:

In many ways 2015 was the year when cloud became mainstream. Across a wide range of cloud applications and services we have seen that usage has now passed well beyond the early adopter phase and barriers to adoption continue to diminish.”