The US cloud computing market is poised for strong growth, as an increasing percentage of enterprise information technology is now becoming cloud-based. According to new research from WaveLength Market Analytics and Winn Technology Group, 58% of medium and large enterprises are already using or planning to use the cloud.
About 41% of that market is comprised of ‘Cloud Pioneers’, those enterprises that actively use or pilot some type of cloud solution. Another 17%, dubbed ‘Cloud Planners’, are planning to implement a cloud solution.
Next to Software-as-a-Service, the most common solutions deployed by companies are Platform-as-a-Service, with 54.8%, hosted private Cloud with 32%, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service with nearly 26%. In the next two years, enterprise IT buyers expect to use more private, public, and hybrid clouds.
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I doubt it will be – especially when one of the ‘big boys’ is comprimised and masses of data available. Cloud vs Server has always been a winner, but Virtulation cost vs Cloud is the winner in my mind.