Public cloud adoption stalling in US

Grazed from ITNews. Author: Munir Kotadia.

Adoption of internal cloud technologies have increased by 50 percent in a year while public cloud usage seems to have stalled, according to the most recent survey of The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) members. The ODCA is a global organisation that was formed in 2010 to promote the adoption of interoperable, non-proprietary cloud technologies. This was its third annual survey investigating adoption of its members’ cloud computing and data analytics technologies.

The survey found that in the past 12 months, the number of respondents already running more than 40 percent of their workloads in internal clouds had increased from 20 percent to 31 percent. This figure is expected to grow as high as 70 percent by 2016. For the first time in its annual survey, the ODCA measured the adoption of virtual private and community cloud…

It discovered that just over half of respondents were using these technologies for at least a fifth — 20 percent — of their operations. However, adoption of public cloud technologies seemed to have stalled. The survey revealed that since the previous year, adoption of public cloud has remained flat…

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