Unisys: Private Cloud, SaaS Delivery Models Popular Among CIOs
April 3, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Dan Kobialka.
Unisys, a global information technology company, reported today that more senior-level IT executives are moving their organizational information into the cloud. In a survey conducted by Unisys and IDG Research throughout 2013, more than 50 percent of senior-level IT leaders at organizations with over 1,000 employees indicated that they have at least one application or a portion of their organization’s IT infrastructure in the cloud.
These executives also noted that about 26 percent of their enterprise information currently resides in a private cloud, and, despite their security concerns, they expect that percentage to grow to about 32 percent in the next 18 months. Colin Lacey, Unisys’ VP of Data Center and Cloud Transformation Solutions and Services, said that many CIOs and senior-level IT executives are using private cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery models to lower their operating costs and ensure secure, consistent delivery of IT services to their employees and customers…
"Security concerns are not stopping CIOs from making use of the cloud to reduce costs and increase their organizational agility," Lacey said in a press release. "These results show that senior IT leaders are taking a pragmatic, measured approach to cloud adoption, making use of secure private cloud and as-a-service delivery models to ensure secure, consistent delivery of IT services to their employees and customers."…
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