How Much Enterprise Spending Could be Shifted to Cloud Alternatives?

If a traditional enterprise data center represents about 23 percent of the whole information technology budget, and data communications represents about nine percent of total budget, you can see where the potential for spending shifts lies: substituting cloud computing for owned data center operations.

Enterprises can shift data center costs in the direction of cloud facilities and bandwidth. Presumably some other existing costs, including IT management, application support, app development, IT service desk and end user computing costs likewise could be reduced.

source: AT Kearney