The cloud forecast is sunny indeed, according to the 2013 North Bridge and GigaOM Research Future of Cloud Computing Survey.
The survey shows that cloud adoption is taking off because businesses are seeing the full power of what the cloud can do – from achieving superior TCO to enabling agility, scaling the business quickly and driving innovation, says Craig Kitterman on the Windows Azure blog.
Other highlights from the survey include:
- Cloud computing adoption continued to rise in 2013, with nearly 75 percent of businesses using some sort of cloud platform (up from 67 percent last year).
- While Software as a Service (SaaS) is most popular and used by 63 percent of organizations (compared to 55 percent last year), the real growth is with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) -- up 29 percent in usage from last year.
- Businesses are less worried about security in the cloud, and now focused on looking at how the cloud will change their infrastructure, considering areas like complexity.
Check out the Windows Azure blog for more information, or read the full survey report here.
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Jennifer Warnick
Microsoft News Center Staff