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Into the cloud -- securelyCompanies are on the path to cloud adoption. According to a recent report, 28% of U.S. organizations are...
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Companies are on the path to cloud adoption. According to a recent report, 28% of U.S. organizations are using cloud computing today, with 73% reporting their first step was implementation of a single cloud application. Yet while 84% of organizations say they have employed at least one cloud application, most do not yet self-identify as "cloud users" who are "implementing or maintaining cloud computing."
Why not? Aren't they using the cloud? Perhaps it depends on your definition. There are countless definitions of "cloud computing" currently in use as the technology continues to grow in popularity. For this article, we define cloud computing as a model for enabling convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be provisioned rapidly. With that definition in mind, let's look at adoption.
CDW's Cloud Computing Tracking Poll found that organizations are moving applications to the cloud to consolidate their IT infrastructure, reduce IT energy and
capital costs and provide anywhere access to documents and applications. Applications most commonly operated in the cloud
in 2011 were commodity applications -- including email, file storage, Web and video conferencing and online learning.
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