The EU’s awful cloud adoption rates revealed
January 29, 2015
Grazed from BetaNews. Author: Lee Marsden.
The growth in high-speed internet connectivity across Europe, the increasing adoption of cloud services, the consumerization of IT and the move towards mobile working are all trends that, in theory, play to the strengths of SMBs — allowing them to compete more effectively.
The proliferation towards cloud-based services such as Skype, Google Drive and Salesforce is also making life easier for employees — allowing staff to access content from anywhere and work collaboratively. However, research of 2,500 European office-based workers recently conducted by ZyXEL, has found that while SMBs are starting to make the most of new technologies and services, there are inconsistencies with the progress being made in each country…
The best and the worst
Germany is leading the way when it comes to the adoption of cloud computing, with 44 percent of staff saying they use cloud-based applications such as Dropbox, Google Drive or Salesforce. But this number was considerably ahead of any other region surveyed…
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