Cloud adoption trends and cloud outlook for solution providers
September 6, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Lynn Haber.
While cloud computing has become a well-established option for IT operations, confusion persists and is hampering channel partners from fully transforming their business model, according to CompTIA’s fourth annual Trends in Cloud Computing study, which was published last month.
The CompTIA study — which polled IT and business professionals as well as IT channel companies, for about a total of 900 respondents — noted several cloud adoption trends. For starters, IT systems are increasingly cloud-based, with businesses showing a greater reliance on all three cloud models: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service…
In fact, 90% of the surveyed enterprises reported using some sort of cloud computing this year compared with 80% last year. The cloud adoption trends numbers, however, while strong, may be a bit misleading because of how the end user uses the term "cloud computing," according to Seth Robinson, director of technology analysis at Downers Grove, Ill.-based CompTIA…
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