IT infrastructure continues march into the cloud
December 13, 2014
Grazed from DataCenter Dynamics. Author: Drew Amorosi.
Moving IT infrastructure into the cloud is a hot trend, but it appears the practice is burning brighter on one side of the Atlantic. That’s according to newly released survey data showing those who hold the budget purse strings in the US have been faster to move their IT infrastructure to the cloud when compared with their UK counterparts.
The survey of IT decision makers in both regions showed that one-third of those surveyed in the US have moved a “significant” amount (50–70%) of their organization’s IT infrastructure into the cloud, whereas in the UK, more than three-quarters have shifted less than 50%. UK respondents cited a lack of proper tools and technical skills as the primary factor for slower cloud migtation. On the US side, those surveyed said the decision to place infrastructure in the cloud was motivated by perceived improvement in service levels, uptime, and reliability…
The study was conducted by Redshift Research and commissioned by cloud hosting provider NaviSite. The results were from an online survey of 250 IT decision makers in the US and UK taken in August 2014…
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