Sunny outlook for cloud services

China is shaping up to be the largest spender on public cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region, with the adoption of cloud-computing services seeing triple-digit growth year-on-year in the quarter that ended in March, according to a report by Tencent Holdings Ltd.

Public cloud usage skyrocketed 138.6 percent year-on-year, thanks to the ongoing shift to cloud computing across the public and private sectors, according to figures released by the tech giant on Wednesday.

Drawing on statistics from 351 cities, the research encapsulates the three primary segments of public cloud services - SaaS, PaaS and Iaas - to examine the adoption of servers, databases, and a host of related services in the daily operations of organizations.