Cloud adoption still on the rise as IT departments take the lead
February 21, 2015
Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Ian Barker.
It’s no surprise that more and more organisations are using the cloud, but the latest State of the Cloud report from RightScale throws up some interesting trends. The company surveyed 930 technical professionals across a broad cross-section of organisations about their adoption of cloud computing.
Among the findings are that a vast majority, 93 per cent, of organisations surveyed are running applications in the cloud or experimenting with infrastructure-as-a-service. In addition 82 per cent of enterprises now have a hybrid cloud strategy, up from 74 per cent in 2014…
It seems to be IT departments that are driving the move with 62 per cent of enterprises reporting that central IT makes the majority of their cloud spending decisions. 43 per cent of IT teams are offering some form of self-service portal to allow access to cloud services, with an additional 41 per cent planning or already developing a portal…