RightScale Survey Shows Cloud Adoption Unlocks More Cloud Value
April 11, 2014
Grazed from CloudTimes.org. Author: Saroj Kar.
How companies are adopting cloud computing and how they are addressing the changes that it entails in the management of IT resources? RightScale tries to find the answers in its RightScale 2014 State of the Cloud Survey. The survey results found that cloud adoption is picking up steam as enterprises increase both public and private cloud adoption. More interestingly, enterprises have increased the adoption of public cloud services.
Much of that credit goes to how public cloud services like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, RackSpace and others are aggressively marketing their offerings. Nearly 1,100 enterprises and small-and-mid-sized businesses (SMBs) surveyed, 89 percent are using public cloud for something and the rest are planning to use in future…
RightScale evaluated responses with a Cloud Maturity Model segregating into four different sections – Cloud Watchers, Cloud Beginners, Cloud Explorers and Cloud Focused. Cloud Watchers are defined as organizations that are developing cloud strategies and plans but have not yet deployed applications into the cloud. Cloud Beginners are new to cloud computing and are working on proof-of-concepts or initial cloud projects. Cloud Explorers have multiple projects or applications already deployed in the cloud. Finally, Cloud Focused businesses are heavily using cloud infrastructure…
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