U.S. And U.K. Show Cloud Adoption Divide
February 6, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. AuthorL Gary Flood.
When it comes to Joe Q. Public, it seems Main Street U.S.A. is a lot weaker on its cloud understanding than its British High Street peers. The issue that’s embarrassing many U.K. cloud mavens is that despite that disparity, it’s in the Land of the Free, not Her Majesty’s domain, that actual cloud projects seem to be getting done. A new poll from European cloud supplier Webfusion of 1,000 U.S. citizens found 31.8% claimed to have no understanding of the term "cloud" at all, and only 25% said they had a clear grasp of the topic.
In terms of age groups, 25 to 34-year-old people performed best on this question, with 33.8% claiming to know what cloud computing is. The same exercise found 63% of these U.S. respondents weren’t able to recognize Dropbox, iTunes, Gmail or Microsoft’s Hotmail as cloud services, and 91% did not see the term "scalable hosting" as equivalent to cloud…
The company compared the U.S. findings with what it says are equivalent sample results from the U.K. that shows 34% of British respondents have a good understanding of the term "cloud," and 84% of the same group, compared to 91% in the U.S. sample, failed the "scalable hosting" definition test…
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