Blue Skies Or Dark Clouds Ahead?
April 10, 2016
Grazed from BSM. Author: Editorial Staff.
Enterprise computing projects are moving rapidly to cloud-based solutions, and companies around the world expect 80 percent of their IT budget will be dedicated to cloud computing services by the beginning of 2017. This shift towards a cloud-first approach to enterprise services is being driven not just by improved agility and cost savings, but also by increasing trust in all things cloud, with 77 percent of organizations saying they trust clouds more now than they did a year ago.
Blue Skies?
Cloud computing covers a wide range of services, from infrastructure to applications in private, hybrid, and public variants. Based on a survey of 1,200 IT professionals responsible for cloud security across eight countries, organizations are currently using just over 40 cloud services (that they know about), from a low of 29 in the United Kingdom to a high of 55 in Brazil…
While Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is often the first thing to come to mind when talking about clouds, future investment planning for the majority of organizations encompasses the whole range of service models. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, is the most likely to be deployed in the future (81 percent of organizations)…
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