2014 Future of the Cloud Survey has Surprises – Nice Ones for a Change

April 6, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from CloudComputing. Author: Peter Bernstein.

Did you know that 90 percent of the world’s data has been created in the last two years? Do you realize that 80 percent of it is unstructured? Why is this important? After Gigaom Research and North Bridge Venture Partners released their fourth 2014 Future of Cloud Computing survey, I had a chance to pick the brain of Michael Skok at Gigaom’s Structure event. Skok is founder of the Future of Cloud program and General Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners. He believes that, within three years, more data will live in the cloud than anywhere else.

Skok noted that, “With four years of data, we’re now really beginning to see some interesting trends, such as the five-fold increase in SaaS adoption to 74 percent, and the nearly six-fold increase in PaaS adoption to 41 percent.” Mike Schutz, GM, Cloud Platform Marketing at Microsoft commented that: What comes across to me loud and clear is that even more businesses are no longer asking, ‘why cloud?’ but will focus on figuring out how to execute a long-term cloud strategy.” Here are some additional thoughts from that survey that help explain not only current trends, but the future of cloud computing…

IaaS and PaaS Adoption Reaching a Tipping Point: While the adoption of SaaS is not that surprising given the popularity of cloud-based apps, what is going to be something to watch is that 56 percent of businesses are using IaaS technologies to harness elastic computing resources, while 41 percent of businesses are using PaaS to prototype and develop new applications…

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