Cloud Adoption And Trends For 2012

20/04/2012

By Steven Holford, Marketing Director, Fasthosts

The language of cloud computing may not be universally understood and applied, however, adoption of cloud services is becoming commonplace. During the nine months between this research and the prior UK market analysis carried out by the Cloud Industry Forum, adoption has increased by over 10 per cent measured in terms of the volume of new organisations using such services.

What is truly encouraging is that we have seen a levelling out of adoption regardless of the size of organisations proving that the universal principles of flexibility and scalability delivered on a pay-as-you-use commercial...

...model has opened up the market and enables small companies
to access and leverage new technology alongside enterprises, levelling the playing field and potentially changing the basis of competition in many markets going forward.

Equally important to take onboard is that almost all organisations that have taken on cloud services (96 %) have stated satisfaction with their experience and result. This is an astonishing position for any new market, and itself is an improvement on the 94% satisfaction rating declared in the prior research.

So whilst we cannot ignore (and fully recognise) that the language of cloud computing can be confusing, that marketing hype by vendors can obscure the practical understanding among end users; and that there are (arguably as a result) real concerns to provide comfort, clarity and mitigation around... the simple truth is that cloud services are growing in adoption and delivering positive results by those who have used them.

Cloud is an enabler of business process change; it enables organisations to achieve activities more quickly, more efficiently and more flexibly. The power of any IT solution is in the business benefits that it brings, be it in improving operational costs, improving time to market, enabling rapid change... continued on page two >

 

 

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