New research by the US IT firm Cisco shows a shift in attitudes towards cloud in the UK and Ireland. The report Cisco CloudWatch 2012 is the second in the company’s annual Cloud series and finds IT decision makers in bullish mood, increasingly placing applications and services from across their business into the cloud and planning for further investment over the coming 12 months.
The message that cloud can deliver significant cost reduction is now resonating with the IT community – cost saving has become a top driver for adopting cloud, the IT firm says.
Security still remains the number one concern when putting services and applications in the cloud. But that concern is noticeably less pronounced than in last year’s report and the use of public cloud is up 11 per cent, although private cloud still dominates.
Big Data has been a hot topic in the IT landscape this year. A designated section of the CloudWatch report looks at how companies are grappling with multiple pillars of IT strategy – including keeping pace with changing IT security demands on the business (71 per cent), improving the quality of business applications delivery to the business (70 per cent), creating greater levels of end user mobility / remote access (70 per cent).
