Cloud has passed the tipping point, now mainstream

Grazed from WhaTech. Author: Editorial Staff.

Hosting and cloud computing are now mainstream with 45 percent of organisations beyond the pilot phase and 32 percent having a formal cloud computing plan as part of their overall IT and business strategy. Those are the conclusions of a global survey of more than 2,000 IT decision-makers undertaken by 451 Research.

The study also found, based on responses, that on-premises private cloud adoption accounted for 26 percent of on-premises infrastructure spending in 2013 and that hosted private cloud would experience the highest rate of growth for off-premises infrastructure, accounting for 32 percent of hosted spending in the next 24 months…

Seventy one percent of respondents use software as a service and 69 percent use hosted infrastructure services. These figures are set to rise to 85 and 83 percent, respectively over the next two years. Thirty seven percent of respondents presently use platform as a service, and 26 percent said they would do so in the next two years, taking the total to 63 percent. Respondents’ average distribution of expenditure on hosted infrastructure services between traditional dedicated, hosted private cloud and public cloud was 48, 28, 24 percent and in two years will move to 42, 32 and 25 percent…

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