New studies confirm cloud popularity for storage, memory, business intelligence
September 29, 2013
Grazed from FierceEnterpriseCommunications. Author: David Weldon.
The results of more studies on cloud computing were recently released, and they confirm the rapid rate of adoption of cloud-based applications. Verizon released the results of its latest study about the cloud, the "State of the Enterprise Cloud Report," indicating that the use of cloud technology for storage grew by 90 percent from January 2012 to January 2013. The use of the cloud for memory increased by 100 percent during the same period, the study said.
The Verizon study found that the growth rate for virtual machines being deployed on the cloud increased by 35 percent during this time. These dramatic results aren’t surprising when taken in the context of another cloud computing survey from Dimensional Research. The survey was commissioned by cloud business intelligence provider Birst…
In this study, Dimensional Research reported that business intelligence and analytics software professionals prefer cloud-based business intelligence over on-premise software when it comes to accessing real-time business data…
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