Cloud Investment to Sky Rocket

A new survey by KPMG and Forbes reveals that most organisations expect their investment next year in Cloud to 'Sky Rocket with some spending more than 20% of their IT budget on Cloud' in 2012.

The most important driver for cloud was cited as economic factors, others included improving processes to offer more agility and other technical benefits not available from their own data centers.

Interestingly respondents from both IT and other business functions felt the changes delivered by cloud would be significant.

However, it was still felt that there needed to be demonstrable cost savings of at least 10% to justify the investment, with 10% saying the savings would need to be in excess of 25%.

Fewer than 10% say their company has no immediate Cloud plans.

Most cloud adaptors 'test the water' with SaaS such as Salesforce.com according to the report. But long term, the survey concludes that 'private Clouds will dominate the most critical functions'.

This survey demonstrates that cloud is no longer confined to the IT department, and it is now considered part of tactical implementations to meet business needs. We are well on the way to a time when Cloud will be a strategic investment.

Source: Joe McKendrick - Cloud Computing Set to 'Skyrocket' Driven by Economy: Survey, October 2011