SaaS remains most popular form of cloud computing for UK IT
February 11, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
Software as a service (SaaS) continues to be the top cloud service that the UK enterprises plan to use in 2013, despite newer cloud services such as datacentre as a service, database as a service or even testing and development as a service. A majority (55%) of respondents of the TechTarget and Computer Weekly UK IT priorities survey 2013 cited SaaS as the external cloud service that they will use this year.
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was the second most popular cloud service, with around 34% of some 400 IT executives surveyed planning to use it. In comparison, only 12% of respondents said they will use datacentre as a service and only 11% said they will use collaboration as a service. Other cloud computing services such as testing and development and private cloud design were also cited by less than 20% of the respondents…
In addition, only 16% said they will use security as a cloud service emphasising the cloud computing security risks and concerns. UK businesses are still very cautious about investing in cloud computing in 2013, with only 30% of IT executives planning to increase their cloud budget for 2013. This compared with 46% investing in software and 43% investing in hardware resources this year…
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