Thursday 29 July 2010
IT Cloud computing Survey
Recent survey from IT intelligence firm IDC indicates an increasing amount of businesses are planning a transition to cloud computing technology despite the facts and concerns about security and performance. According to additional research by IDC, spending on IT cloud services is expected to grow threefold in the next three years, to reach $42 billion
According to the Survey 15 percent to 25 percent of companies are currently adopting cloud computing technologies, with 25 percent to 45 percent reporting plans to do so in the next three years.
“Cloud computing moves from ‘unheard-of’ to ‘must-do’ much faster for IT professionals than I’ve seen with previous platform shifts,”according to Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus.
The main barriers to adoption are security - 76.4 percent of businesses reported security and Performance -63.1 percent said performance.
Yet Frank Gens, IDC’s senior vice president and chief analyst, believes that in the next several years, these challenges will be essentially irrelevant.
“The cloud dramatically reduces the barriers for customer adoption and dramatically expands the market reach for solution developers,” Gens wrote in the IDC blog. “Can you imagine a developer of a hot new solution choosing not to deploy in a cloud/SaaS mode? Hard to imagine.”
