This IDC study discusses the factors that will have the biggest commercial impact on the cloud services market across Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ in 2014. The APEJ region continues its pattern of steady growth, albeit at a slower pace than the double-digit growth seen before the 2008 crisis and in the rebound year of 2011. IDC expects overall ICT growth in 2014 to be similar to 2013 at 7.6%. We also expect the revenue split between hardware, software, services, and telecom services to remain quite stable through 2016."In 2013, the APEJ cloud services market has moved from primarily viewing the cloud as a new IT service delivery model that can replace ICT capital investment to an understanding that the external sourcing of business processes is the way in which businesses can remain competitive and agile while also reining in IT costs in the future," says Chris Morris, associate vice president for Cloud Services, IDC Asia/Pacific. "CIOs and IT managers who have been slow t...