Cloud Adoption Limited but Poised to Grow: Gartner

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Nathan Eddy.

Just 38 percent of all organizations indicate cloud services use today, according to a survey of 651 organizations across nine countries from IT research firm Gartner. However, 80 percent of organizations said that they intend to use cloud services in some form within 12 months, including 55 percent of the organizations not doing so today.

The results revealed that although the use of cloud services is growing faster than the overall enterprise IT market, it is still a small part of overall IT spending. The objective of the survey was to better understand how organizations are shifting from the use of traditional technology products to new technology delivered as cloud services and to understand end-user organizations’ use of external service providers for IT services, Gartner explained…


"Given that the use of cloud services currently constitutes only a very small part of the vast enterprise IT market, strategic planners should not make the mistake of taking current cloud use cases to be predictors of future cloud use," Gregor Petri, research director at Gartner, said in a statement. "Cloud computing is set to have a considerable impact on business in the future which is reflected in the survey finding that around 60 percent of organizations plan increased investment over the next two years to five years, while only 6 percent plan to decrease investments in cloud services."…

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