What’s Your Cloud Personality? WideAngle Identifies Five

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Let’s not start using the word "predictable," but organizations are starting to settle into five different categories of cloud personas, according to new data from WideAngle, a division of NTT Com Security (formerly known as Integralis). And the new "The Five Cloud Personas – are you an Embracer or a Controller?" report has some interesting data to share on how companies are embracing not only cloud, but new technologies in general.

WideAngle based its study on a survey of more than 700 IT decision-makers in organizations with more than 500 employees in seven geographies—the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Nordic region, Japan and Hong Kong. It examined the habits of organizations across the public and private sector, and came up with five distinct cloud personas, each with well-defined characteristics, said Tom Salkeild, director of professional services at WideAngle, in an interview with Talkin’ Cloud…

So how to companies measure up? Quite simple, really:

The Controller is an organization least likely to use cloud computing (so don’t have high hopes for making a sale). This is the kind of organization that is wedded to traditional data center models and is very unlikely to experiment with new and emerging technologies…

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