45% of Global Enterprises Are Running Production-Level Cloud Apps Today
March 31, 2014
Grazed from Enterprise Irregulars. Author: Louis Columbus.
Microsoft’s latest study shows enterprises’ pace of cloud computing adoption continues to accelerate. Nearly half of the respondents (45%) report they have cloud-based applications running in production environments. 58% report that they selectively target new applications and projects for cloud computing.
Microsoft commissioned 451 Research to complete one of the most comprehensive global surveys to date of hosting and cloud computing, titled Hosting and Cloud Go Mainstream releasing the results earlier this month. The 74 page slide deck of results provides a wealth of insights into the current and future state of hosting and cloud computing…
451 Research constructed the methodology to include interviews with 2,000 companies and organizations of all sizes from 11 countries, with more than a third of respondents coming from the United States. Microsoft and 451 Research provided the slides showing the result of screener questions, which provides a useful context for analyzing the survey results…
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