Study shows differences between cloud users and non-users
November 23, 2012
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.
A cornerstone study into cloud computing in the UK has revealed the key difference in opinion between cloud users and non-cloud users. The study, from Raconteur Media and written by Mike O’Driscoll entitled ‘Navigating the Cloud’, had a relatively small survey base – just under 250 completed at least part of the survey – but of that number, there was a lot of clout – 84% saw themselves as the key IT decision maker.
Again, software as a service (SaaS) proved itself to be the most mature cloud market. 81% of respondents currently use SaaS, compared to 45% for information as a service (IaaS) and 38% for platform as a service (38%). Crucially, only 5% of respondents had no plans to use SaaS in their company. This correlates with research from Symform which showed that SaaS “continued to be the entryway” for cloud platforms…
The survey showed less of a grasp for PaaS, however, where 48% of Symform respondents stated they weren’t going to use PaaS in the next 12 months. Recent Gartner research predicted that PaaS would hit $1.2bn as a global market by the end of this year, and Ovum called PaaS “the next kid on the cloud block” in its latest research note…
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