The survey also finds that most cloud adopters get their feet wet with Software as a Service (SaaS) implementations, such as Salesforce.com.

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Implementations of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) were comparatively rare among respondents.

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