Cloud Savings Piling Up

Grazed from Information Management. Author: Jim Ericson.

Management consulting firm Navint Partners LLC has released a report and white paper documenting the success of cloud computing adoption when it comes to cost savings. The key finding: 90 percent of participants in a survey reported they had received 100 percent of forecasted savings when their companies adopted cloud technology.

The sampling of CIOs across North America included client and non-client executives, mostly from global organizations with more than 5,000 employees, offering a view into the ways large organizations view cloud adoption, according to Navint. Navint further engaged Robert Summers, the CIO of tax preparer Jackson Hewitt, to dig into the findings…

From a list of forces driving cloud adoption, survey respondents indicated that hardware costs yielded the most pronounced benefits. This includes the “true” costs of hardware ownership including upgrades, onsite staff and data center costs…

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