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CompTIA Brings Out Cloud Adoption Research [Professional Services Close - Up]
[September 15, 2013]

CompTIA Brings Out Cloud Adoption Research [Professional Services Close - Up]


(Professional Services Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) With 90 percent of companies claiming some form of cloud usage, many organizations have moved to the next step, leveraging multiple cloud models in different combinations to optimize benefits and efficiencies, according to new research from CompTIA, a non-profit association for the information technology industry.



According to a release, CompTIA's Fourth Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study reveals companies are relying on cloud computing for business processes such as storage (59 percent), business continuity and disaster recovery (48 percent) and security (44 percent).

"Once companies hit a stage where they are using cloud systems as a standard part of IT architecture, they weigh the pros and cons of various providers and models and continually shift to achieve the optimal mix," said Seth Robinson, director, technology analysis, market research, CompTIA. "A healthy percentage of companies are moving from one public cloud provider to another, moving from a public cloud provider to their own private cloud, or moving applications back on-premise." CompTIA's study found that more than six in ten cloud users have made secondary shifts of infrastructure or applications following their original transition to the cloud.


-Public to Public: The most popular type of move is from one public cloud provider to another. Factors for switching providers include security, costs, features, open standards, outages and customer service.

-Public to Private: Many businesses may give the label "private cloud" to a virtualized set of resources. A true private cloud employs software that manages resources automatically, dynamically allocating as needed without manual intervention.

-Public to On-Premise: By far the primary motivation to move back to an on-premise system is security. Companies may simply move a particular application that gives them concern, while they still have less sensitive applications on public cloud platforms.

Report information: slideshare.net/comptia/slideshare-2013-cloud-end-user-study.

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