In the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, where I focus a good deal of my professional (and personal) time, IDC recently conducted an SMB Cloud Adoption Study to investigate how cloud computing will impact small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in the next three years.
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Another Deloitte study confirmed that cloud deployments delivered greater investment returns with a shorter payback period when compared to the traditional on-premise delivery option.
Still, the points raised in the MeriTalk study also provide a case for cloud within the private sector as well.
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Using Interop as a platform for my own informal study on the state of the cloud, the technology has already moved beyond the hype stage and well into the adoption one.
Using the BAH study as a guide, and assuming that community cloud economies mimic those expected from a hybrid cloud, transitioning IT services from an agency-owned IT infrastructure to the GSA IaaS platform should deliver benefit cost ratios of approximately 7:1.
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This study also took into account how personas are used by companies building cloud-based contextual advertising systems.
Davies and Molloy are therefore properly cautious with their conclusions, but nonetheless note that a comparison of the beginning and endpoints for their study, which minimizes the La Nina contribution, still showed a decline in cloud height.
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Cloud-based productivity suites have the lowest adoption rate among the three applications reviewed in this study.
The IDC study also confirms that almost two-thirds of enterprises are planning, implementing or using cloud computing, and lack of training, certification or experience are the top three reasons why cloud positions are not filled.
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In fact, cloud-based applications are less likely to be attacked than on-premises environments, a new study of 70, 000 security breaches for a 12-month period across 1, 600 companies, released by by Alert Logic, a security vendor, concludes.
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