Press 17% of enterprises made use of cloud computing in 2016

Press release No. 102 of 20 March 2017

WIESBADEN – In 2016, 17% of the enterprises in Germany with 10 or more persons employed bought IT services via cloud computing. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports on the occasion of the CeBIT computer fair that this was an increase of 5 percentage points compared with 2014. 

Cloud computing for enterprises means that, via the internet, IT services such as software or storage (so-called cloud services) are provided in line with customer needs and are billed depending on usage.

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