Worldwide, Africa, North America, Europe, Central and South America, APAC, MENA
Survey time period
early 2016
Number of respondents
n = 1,734*
Special properties
IT decision-makers
Supplementary notes
This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Approximately what percent of your organization's spend on hosting and cloud services is for [Primary Hosting/Cloud Services Provider]?"
* North America, n=951; Western Europe, n=329; Asia Pacific, n=317; Latin America, n=91; Middle East and Africa, n=46.
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Hosting and cloud organization spending share on primary provider 2016, by region
The statistic shows the share of organizational spending on primary providers of cloud and hosting services worldwide, by region, in 2015, based on a global survey of IT decision-makers. During the survey, ** percent of respondents from Western Europe indicated that their organizations put between one and ** percent of their cloud and hosting services spending towards their primary provider. On average, about ** percent of cloud and hosting spending in Western Europe went towards the primary provider.
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