Enterprises Prefer Private Clouds: Survey

June 29, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Gina Ross.

Adoption of cloud models is moving into a mature stage as more organizations expect to transition key IT operations to the cloud over the next five years, with private cloud deployments leading the way. Today, 61 percent of organizations have at least a portion of their computing infrastructure in the cloud, according to an IDG Enterprise cloud computing report.

Although many enterprises are still trying to identify IT operations that are good candidates for cloud hosting, cloud investments are up compared with last year, increasing by 10 percent for an average investment of $1.5 million, said IDG. Based on 1,358 survey respondents, a key finding shows that 29 percent of companies expect that the majority of IT operations—with the exception of financial and compliance applications—will be in the cloud in the next five years…


The report also reveals that cloud computing capabilities that align with a company’s business strategy are driving investments, led by enabling business continuity (43%) and improving customer support and services (43%). Other key drivers include increasing flexibility to react to changing market conditions (40%) and reducing resource waste (40%), IDG found…

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