Three quarters of businesses have embraced cloud, survey suggests
June 21, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.
Three quarters of companies are using a cloud platform of some type, according to the third annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey. This represents an increase of eight per cent compared to 2012. The survey of 855 respondents, most of whom were c-level executives, showed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products remain the most popular. Sixty three per cent of organisations said they used this type of cloud service, compared to 55 per cent last year.
However, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), while not yet as popular, is growing faster. Usage of this type of solution has risen from 35 per cent in 2012 to 45 per cent in 2013. The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market, while not yet on the same scale as SaaS or IaaS, is expected to grow sharply over the next five years. Seventy two per cent of respondents said they expect to be using a PaaS offering in their business by the end of 2018…
According to the research, agility (54.5 per cent) and scalability (54.3 per cent) were cited as the main drivers behind cloud adoption. Other reasons included cost (48 per cent) and continuous innovation (22 per cent)…
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