What’s driving corporate cloud use? Home cloud use?
March 1, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
A new study sponsored by CDW shows what may seem obvious: Home users of cloud-based services are more likely to promote work use of cloud computing. The interesting part is that these self-motivated customers have done a better job of selling cloud computing than the marketing departments with their billions of dollars.
CDW’s "2013 State of the Cloud" report surveyed 1,242 tech professionals and concluded that the personal use of cloud services is a big factor in corporate cloud adoption. In the report, 73 percent of respondents claimed that, in their company, employees’ use of personal cloud services has "significantly influenced" the decision to move aspects of enterprise IT to the public cloud. The survey included employees who worked within as well as outside of IT…
In other words, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Apps, and SaaS users have a positive view and understanding of cloud computing. They create their own good PR and make the case for a good deal of enterprise cloud adoption. The stakes may be higher, but the concepts are the same. Moreover, 61 percent of businesses agreed that BYOD has driven a faster move to cloud-based services for use on the back end of employees’ devices. These mobile users can clearly see the value brought by cloud-based resources…
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