Cloud IaaS deployed by two thirds of firms
November 29, 2013
Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Jamie Hinks.
Over two thirds of companies have deployed business critical apps on an infrastructure-as-a-service [IaaS] platform as cloud usage continues to grow amongst businesses. A survey carried out by Riverbed Technology at the recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas showed that some 80 per cent of attendees have deployed an app in an IaaS cloud for the first time.
When it comes to concerns about the IaaS cloud, 90 per cent stated that reliability is the top concern with performance [88 per cent], security [86 per cent], and costs [84 per cent] trailing closely behind. “Given that reliability and performance topped the concerns for the trail-blazers at AWS re:invent, these are evidently very serious challenges,” added Dormain Drewitz, senior solutions marketing manager at Riverbed Technology…
Low down on the list of concerns among the 122 respondents is employees not having the expertise to deploy apps using IaaS, which stood at just 32 per cent, and led Drewitz to conclude that “skills have caught up to trend.”…
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