In case you didn't know already, Australia pegged as the 2nd highest cloud adopter, only second to the US - should be an interesting year for us here. Also, greater than 50% of US businesses are jumping into the cloud.
Some of the other key findings described in the report include...
Some of the other key findings described in the report include...
- On the great debate about commodity versus enterprise-class infrastructure components, 45% of public cloud users felt that the quality or grade of these components is highly important. Another 34% felt quality of infrastructure components was somewhat important.
- Based on economic analysis, one of the greatest potential benefits of cloud computing stems from elasticity. Yet, less than half of cloud users have deployed elastic applications of any kind.
- Off-premise private clouds, such as hosted private clouds and virtual private clouds, are gaining a substantial following.
- Organizations with more than 1,000 employees are 46% more likely than smaller organizations to use hybrid clouds.
- Cloud users stand to benefit much more from cloud computing as the maturity of their usage increases, particularly with hybrid clouds.
RSS Feed