Thursday 11 March 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.”
cloud-computing-survey 2009
This is the summary of Survey conducted by onCloudComputing (www.oncloudcomputing.com). in which the participants were asked only one simple question “What they are looking for in 2009 in relation to Cloud Computing”. So we can also call the following as “Cloud Computing Trends 2009”
1. Google Cloud Computing
Google has invested heavily in online storage and cloud computing. Google went from a happy consumer of open source to an active contributor to open source on a very big scale. Google already lets people port some of their personal data to the Internet and use its Web-based software.
2. Amazon Cloud Computing
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (also known as “EC2″) is a commercial web service that allows customers to rent computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a web services interface through which a customer can create virtual machines, i.e. server instances, on which the customer can load any software of their choice
3. Microsoft Cloud Computing
Microsoft provides products, technologies and offerings around public and private (Azure) clouds, each based on the concepts of being highly virtualized, managed in a consistent manner, dynamic and elastic scalability, and focused on the delivery of services to the user
4. IBM Cloud Computing
IBM’s provides task-specific cloud computing. The company is set to offer business processes as cloud services, virtual desktop as a service, which would allow businesses to deliver desktops virtually. There are also plans cloud-based services such as business analytics and data storage.
5. Cloud Grid computing
Grid computing has been used in environments where users make few but large allocation requests. Cloud computing really is about lots of small allocation requests.
6. Ubuntu Cloud Computing
Ubuntu provides “Ubuntu Server Edition” for use on a public cloud and for building a own private cloud environment on servers, it offers “Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud”. Ubuntu help organizations to migrate to a cloud environment through Consultancy, Deployment services and Support
7. Cloud Computing Sun
Sun Cloud is an on-demand Cloud computing service operated by Sun Microsystems. The Sun Cloud Compute Utility at Network.com provides access to a substantial computing resource over the Internet. It is based on and supports open source technologies such as Solaris 10, Sun Grid Engine, and the Java platform.
8. VMware Cloud Computing
VMware vCloud cloud solution brings together leading technology from VMware, a huge ecosystem of technology and cloud service providers, and compatibility for all the applications living in the cloud, on or off premise.
9. Cloud Computing Security
Security is one of the biggest concerns of businesses in any form. Is it dangerous to have your spreadsheets on Google’s. Securing the data is key to a cloud service provider’s business
10. Free Cloud Computing
“All the best things in world are for Free”. With cloud computing being the new buzz word of the internet, everyone is trying to grab a free demo.
For other such reports and more cloud computing news please check on Cloud Computing
