While the survey finds cost control as the major impetus to adopt cloud applications (17 percent say so), speed of application deployment (14 percent) and mobile access (13 percent) also rate as reasons to go to cloud.
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Currently, no federal regulations are in place to govern cloud computing, and according to an April 2011 Information Systems Audit and Control Association survey of 1, 800 Chief Information Officers (CIOs), compliance is a top risk.
As of 2008, 23% of adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 had diabetes or the precursor condition known as pre-diabetes, up from just 9% in 1999, according to a new analysis of national survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nationwide, 32.8% of students had texted or e-mailed while driving a car or other vehicle on at least 1 day during the 30 days before the Centers for Disease Control conducted its 2011 Youth Risk Survey (PDF).
While that number was the one made public, the researchers also conducted an unpublished survey of men, who on average said they control or influence 61% of spending.
But the new survey found that single parents who reported feeling more in control of their lives tended to be those whose financial circumstances had improved.
According to the survey, 55% of Americans generally favor stricter gun control laws, with 56% saying that it's currently too easy to buy guns in this country.
The survey, jointly conducted by the China Center for Disease Control, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, shows that seven out of 10 adults reported being exposed to secondhand smoke in a typical week.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey 2004, more than 70% of adult Milwaukeeans reported that they had had at least one alcoholic drink within the past 30 days--the highest percentage on our list.
The survey results have been publicly available since last June, but with gun control issues high on the national agenda, Bloomberg held a news conference to discuss the findings Thursday.
According to a new survey conducted by Harris Interactive for TeamViewer, a German company that makes remote control and online meetings software, I am typical.
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The Pew study chiefly used federal data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Justice Department's National Crime Victimization Survey, a household survey conducted by the Census Bureau.
Moreover, he argued, Europeans understand how big the problem is better than their governments do: Based on a survey commissioned by Pfizer, Europeans are worried that their countries are doing too much to control health costs and not enough to boost health.
In a recent survey, 96% of respondents said they used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to control the joint pain and inflammation in horses, and 82% administer them without always consulting their veterinarian.
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Not clear from the Gartner survey is how many deployments will be with public cloud services, versus private or hybrid clouds under greater enterprise control.
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In a recent survey of 4, 500 high-level IT professionals in 83 countries, ISACA (the Information Systems Audit and Control Association) discovered that organizations fear the risks of using public cloud services.
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