Herding Clouds: IT Faces Its Hybrid Future
October 24, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Kurt Marko.
Cloud is quintessential disruptive technology, making up one-third of what CNBC’s Jim Cramer calls today’s "Holy Trinity of Tech": mobile, social, cloud. And finally, years of enterprise IT resistance — fueled by fears tied to security, performance, system management and job security — are crumbling.
The latest InformationWeek State of Cloud Computing Survey found that 40% of respondents use cloud services, up seven points since 2011, with an additional 13% planning to do so by early next year. Only 20% have no plans to incorporate public cloud into their IT portfolios, down seven points from 2011. Similarly, the Uptime Institute’s annual survey of 1,000 data center facilities operators found that 28% use public cloud services, with large companies twice as likely as smaller ones to be adopters…
Gartner estimates the global public cloud services market will grow more than 18% this year, to $131 billion, with infrastructure-as-a-service notching the fastest growth rate, at more than 42%. This growth is fueled by use of cloud for production systems and critical applications, not only test and development environments where IaaS got its foothold…
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