Cloud Growth Explodes Outside the United States As the headquarters region for the leading global cloud providers, the United States has traditionally The U.S. share of public cloud had the lion’s share of cloud storage, followed by storage will drop precipitously EMEA and APJxC. And while cloud storage in the % United States will continue to grow, cloud 51 in 2017 storage in other regions will grow even faster, fueled both by the desire to reduce latency 31% in 2025 by locating data closer to the end consumer, as well as corporate and regulatory mandates requiring data to be housed locally while China’s share will more within different regions. The U.S. share of public than double cloud storage will drop precipitously from 51% in % to % 2017 to 31% by 2025, while China’s share will more 6 13 than double from 6% to 13% (Figure 14). Figure 14 - Cloud Storage Growth and Share by Region Cloud Storage Growth and Share by Region 2015-2025 CAGR 100% % ROW – 50 90% % China – 50 China 80% 70% APJxC – 47% EMEA 60% APJxC 50% EMEA – 46% 40% US 30% ROW 20% US – 33% 10% 0% 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Source: IDC’s Data Age 2025 study, sponsored by Seagate IDC White Paper I Doc# US44413318 I November 2018 The Digitization of the World – From Edge to Core I 18