Adoption of Cloud Computing Grows but Obstacles Remain, Report Finds
May 5, 2015
Grazed from TechVibes. Author: Knowlton Thomas.
Adoption of cloud computing continues to grow globally, according to a recent research report from EMC Corporation, with the hybrid cloud being the most popular option. However, 35% of executives believe their organization doesn’t have the right level of skills and knowledge to achieve key business priorities, while 69% of respondents believe training IT staff to keep pace with the implications of megatrends such as cloud, mobile, and big data will be a challenge for their organization over the next couple years.
Still, evidence for increasing adoption is undeniable: hybrid cloud adoption has grown 9% since 2013, with 27% uptake across the globe, driven, among other factors, by the fact that 74% believe that increasing automation in their infrastructure is imperative to business growth, according to EMC…
“Enterprise IT continues to be under massive pressure to improve quality of service while reducing cost," says Jeremy Burton, President, Products and Marketing, EMC Corporation. "As a result, companies are moving toward more advanced levels of IT infrastructure driven by innovation such as hybrid cloud. We expect this uptake to continue in 2015 as companies look for agile, simple, and secure services."…
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