People’s confusion about cloud computing in light of survey, “The future of cloud computing”
Cloud computing is helping out businesses and enterprises in many ways, especially SMBs from the benefits starting from cost reduction to designing and implementing internet advertising and product campaigns.
However the recent surveys have shown that business executives are still unclear that what actually cloud computing is bringing to them. A survey “The Future of Cloud Computing”, showed the results that mere 40% of the respondents have implemented cloud computing and are experiencing it in their businesses, and some 26% are of the view that they still waiting for the cloud market to get matured, so that they can think of deploying it.
Most of the IT firms are implementing cloud computing so as to maintain their application backlogs and answer the everyday business demands. However some of the decision makers are concerned about the security issues, for example the HIPPA health information privacy rules. The survey also showed that 31% of respondents find security issue as the main hurdle in adopting cloud computing technology.
Derrick Harris, the senior analyst at GigaOM Pro, who contributed a lot in carrying out the survey in 413 industry professionals, vendors and experts of cloud software, services and support, said in an interview, “Cloud computing is a multibillion-dollar industry today, but many companies are still unclear on which technologies they need, how they work together, who the main vendors are and how to implement cloud technologies effectively.”
Nathan Owen, the CEO at Blue Medora which is a Grand Rapids Company that has specialty of developing IBM’s Tivoli Software that facilitate the business executives to assess the business infrastructure in real time, says, “The advantages of the cloud are you only pay for the IT resources you are using,” he continued, “In old days, you’d buy your servers and host them in your data center. Companies discovered they were only using 10 or 20 percent of their capacity, except during rare peak times. With the cloud, it is metered consumption. So you have less capital hardware, you’re not paying the power bills, you’re not doing the patches and software updates, you’re saving a lot of money.”
