CIOs make cloud their top investment priority
October 29, 2012
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.
A quarter of CIOs view cloud infrastructure and virtualisation as their current top investment priorities, research suggests. The investigation, carried out by Research in Action on behalf of software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Compuware, also found that CIOs believe end-to-end performance visibility and robust service level agreements (SLAs) as key to achieving good return on investment from cloud computing.
Over the next five years, full integration of public, hybrid and private cloud will be the single most important priority for CIOs, with 34 per cent of the 200-plus respondents surveyed saying it was their primary focus between now and 2017…
Michael Allen, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) strategic director at Compuware told Cloud Pro: “Whenever we commission independent studies it is to validate signals in the market that we feel are happening and to get a third-party perspective and validation. I also think the data also becomes very interesting to our customers to validate … if they are on the right track with their peers.”…
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