Cloud computing? What’s that?
January 9, 2013
Grazed from ChannelPro. Author: Editorial Staff.
Two in five people say they have little or no understanding of cloud. While the IT industry continues to talk up the potential power of cloud computing, new research published today indicates the general public’s understanding of ‘the cloud’ is still poor. Hosting firm Webfusion polled more than 1,000 members and discovered that almost two in five (38 percent) said that they had little or no understanding of the term, while only a third (34 percent) said they were confident that they knew what it meant.
Although the poll found that ‘cloudy’ applications such as file hosting services similar to Dropbox, email services like Hotmail or Gmail, or online music hosting such as iTunes were each seen as cloud services by around 30 percent of the population, a similar proportion did not recognise these to be cloud. A much smaller proportion (15.7 percent) said that scalable hosting across multiple servers counted as a cloud service…
“The word ‘cloud’ is a nebulous one at the best of times, and it can mean a whole host of discrete things to different people,” comments Thomas Vollrath, CEO of Webfusion’s parent company Host Europe Group. “However, the term itself – and its underlying message of bringing lower costs and greater flexibility to IT – is only really relevant to businesses…
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