Dell targets simpler cloud experience with EMC

Grazed from NetworksAsia. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud usage amongst midsize organizations worldwide grew from 79% in 2014 to 82% this year, according to Dell’s latest Global Technology Adoption Index (GTAI). The cloud adoption rate for SMEs in the Asia Pacific region particularly remains healthy and this aligns with data from the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA), which shows that SMEs spent about US$2 billion on cloud computing services in developed and emerging Asia Pacific in 2014.

The same report also found that cloud computing services for emerging Asia Pacific markets are growing at a rate of 42%. But a number of factors are still holding SMEs back from taking their cloud journey to the next level. “One of the things that we observe during our conversations with SME customers in the region is that cost control and security concerns remain the biggest barriers for midsize organizations when it comes to expanding their cloud usage,” says Chris Kelly (pictured above), an executive director of Commercial Sales & Enterprise Solutions at Dell APJ…

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