It is no secret that cloud adoption amongst Australian organisations is on the up.
But, did you know just how fast this is happening?.
In what has been billed "The largest cloud survey ever", 1358 respondents have provided insight into the cloud technology revolution.
This study analysed the drivers and inhibitors behind cloud adoption, separating the hype surrounding the cloud from genuine industry trends and real-world cases across a sample of 1,358 respondents (world-wide).
The findings have been compiled into a easy to digest Slideshare presentation:
2014 Future of Cloud Computing - 4th Annual Survey Results from Michael J SkokHere are the key findings...
Cloud Adoption is Strategic
- 49 percent of respondents in this year’s survey are using cloud to fuel revenue generation or new product creation.
- 45 percent of businesses say they already, or plan to, run their company from the cloud, showing how integral cloud is to business.
SaaS Adoption Has More Than Quintupled
- From 11 percent adoption in 2011 to 74 percent in this year’s survey. But in the enterprise it is still mostly transitioning existing applications.
- The front office is leading the way with sales and marketing at 51 percent adoption, and customer service and analytics both at 43 percent adoption.
IaaS and PaaS Adoption Reaching a Tipping Point
- 56 percent of businesses are using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies to harness elastic computing resources.
- 41 percent of businesses are using PaaS technologies to prototype and develop new applications.
Data Wants to Be Bigger in the Cloud
- Two-thirds of respondents believe their data will come to reside in some form of cloud over the next two years as bigger data needs consolidation, and collaboration and creation go online.
What's next:
How do these findings impact your organisation?
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