Cloud Storage Adoption Rising Among Businesses: TwinStrata

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Nathan Eddy.

Interestingly, scalability and storage capacity expansion were the benefits cited the least by organizations without plans to implement cloud storage. With businesses increasingly facing the challenge of data storage and running out of storage capacity, adoption of cloud storage technologies continues to grow, according to a report from cloud-integrated storage solutions specialist TwinStrata.

The survey found 37 percent of respondents have been using cloud computing for three or more years, more than a one-third increase over last year’s 27 percent number. When compared to last year’s survey, overall adoption of cloud services has steadily increased across all categories, with use of Software as a Service (SaaS) reaching as high as 62 percent and both cloud storage and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) edging closer to 50 percent adoption rates…

Platform as a Service (PaaS) experienced the greatest increase in adoption as more organizations become increasingly comfortable with the cloud, the report indicated…

Read more from the source @ http://www.eweek.com/small-business/cloud-storage-adoption-rising-among-businesses-twinstrata.html/