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Growing Demand for Cloud Services

Research firm Deltek expects federal demand for cloud services to grow by more than 2.5 times by 2020.

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Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and two cats, Grady and Princess.

Research firm Deltek expects federal demand for cloud computing services to grow to $6.2 billion by 2020, a 21.4 percent compound annual growth rate. Deltek made the forecast in, “Federal Priorities: Cloud, Big Data, Mobility, and Data Centers, 2015–2020,” in October 2015. Here is a snapshot of how Deltek expects the market to expand:

Fiscal Year 2015: $2.35 billion

Fiscal Year 2016: $3.1 billion

Fiscal Year 2017: $3.85 billion

Fiscal Year 2018: $4.8 billion

Fiscal Year 2019: $5.8 billion

Fiscal Year 2020: $6.2 billion