When cloud computing, maturity matters

Grazed from WhaTech. Author: Editorial Staff.

A March 2013 survey of 625 technical professionals across a broad section of organisations on their adoption of cloud computing has highlighted the importance of what it calls ‘cloud maturity’. That’s a measure of the experience organisations have with cloud computing, and the greater it is the more benefits they are able to derive from it and the better they are able to handle challenges of security compliance and governance.

The survey was undertaken by RightScale, a provider of cloud management technology. It concludes: "bottom line: as organisations move forward with cloud adoption and gain experience with cloud technologies, they’re able to unlock increasingly greater levels of value for their organisations."…

The survey found that cloud technology is no longer on the bleeding edge, with three quarters of enterprise respondents saying they are adopting cloud. However, many are still at the experimentation stage and only 17 percent reported heavy usage. The figure was very different for small businesses: 41 percent of them said they were heavy cloud users and only nine percent said they are experimenting. According to the survey report this is in line with the behaviour of large organisations that have to deal with greater organisation scale and complexity and thus tend to take longer to fully consume new technologies…

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