ResearchSurvey: strategic cloud IT buyers
Nearly 30 percent of U.S. IT decision makers at big companies are using cloud strategically, looking to drive new businesses and revenue streams. Read more »
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Nearly 30 percent of U.S. IT decision makers at big companies are using cloud strategically, looking to drive new businesses and revenue streams. Read more »
Senior IT execs are more aggressive across the board in their plans for cloud adoption than their more junior IT management counterparts. Read more »
Both senior and more junior IT decision makers expect a strong movement over the next 5 years towards hybrid cloud environments. Nearly 60% of each says current emphasis is private cloud. Read more »
Senior IT executives expect more aggressive business workload migration than their IT managers do, regardless of type. Read more »
More senior execs expect significant migration of core IT functions to the cloud, regardless of type. They believe these workloads will move more than business applications, many of which may have… Read more »
The senior executives have a significantly greater expectation for the use of SaaS and PaaS technology in two years, when they also have a significantly greater expectation of adopting SDN technology. Read more »
Cost and scalability might be considered “first generation” justifications for cloud technology. Competitive advantage and innovation represent more strategic business rationales. Read more »
Agile innovation is now the overall greatest motivator for change. But buyers and sellers still need to make the cost argument for cloud computing, to assure adoption. Read more »
Security will be the number one concern for buyers of all mobile and cloud solutions for some time to come—even though cloud architectures and implementations are actually accumulating a better record… Read more »
Both mainstream and leading-edge users are moving their web presence to cloud-based solutions. Mainstream users are migrating more IT services, and doing more data center consolidation. Read more »