The Canadian Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing market.

Overall, it is a great pleasure to observe that, when it comes to Cloud computing, buyer preferences focus more on security and privacy, quality of service and performance, flexibility and productivity.

Offerings are less expensive and providers also focus on robust, intuitive and automated self-serve features.

When it comes to the Canadian Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing market, IDC MarketScape: Canadian Public IaaS 2015 Vendor Assessment , reports that, Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Microsoft lead this market.

IDC Canada believes that scale, channel strategy, and the ability to deliver hybrid computing will differentiate vendors in this competitive space.

"Offerings are now becoming less expensive while providers are picking up on the hybrid message and designing their solutions with interoperability and hybrid management in mind, said Mark Schrutt, Research Vice President, Services and Enterprise Applications at IDC Canada.