Cloud Computing Value Apparent, Compliance More Obscure

Grazed from Information-Management. Author: Justin Kern.

Enterprise cloud applications are scoring some anticipated victories with modernization and business value, but are frequently used in a compliance gray area, according to results of a new survey. The report, entitled “Drivers of Cloud Adoption,” surveyed 327 CIOs, IT professionals and business executives involved in cloud adoption at their companies. It was conducted by industry analyst firm Dimensional Research and sponsored by software and on-demand performance management vendor Host Analytics.

When asked the driving factors for choosing a cloud application over an on-premise option, there was little surprise that 80 percent of business executives picked “value” as the top reason. CIOs, on the other hand, were split among a range of reasons: cloud better met compliance requirements (58 percent), perception of cloud holding competitive advantage (51 percent), turning to cloud applications as part of a wider cloud strategy (42 percent), along with, of course, value (53 percent)…

Compared with on-premise solutions, cloud applications showed more agile avenues for updates and modernization, according to survey results. Sixty-one percent of IT respondents stated they regularly work with business-critical, on-premise software that has not been upgraded recently. Nearly half of that on-premise software is three-to-four years out of date, respondents stated…

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