Survey Says Scalability And Costs Are Driving Cloud Adoption
A survey done by vendors, Bitnami, Cloud.com and Zenoss, shows that the user adoption of cloud computing is driven largely by needs for scalability and cost savings. The survey was conducted by these companies in the communities around their open source projects. The survey polled 500 IT professionals, 40 percent of whom were CTOs, architects and [...]
IBM Survey: CIOs Expect A Cloud Boom
IBM recently released the results of their CIO study survey which predicts a boom in the enterprise cloud adoption. As I usually do with any vendor sponsored survey, I take it with a grain of salt. However, this is a trend most of us observe in the industry and I won’t be surprised if this [...]
State of Enterprise 2.0 Survey
Chess Media Group just launched a “State of Enterprise 2.0″ survey to help executives and individuals responsible for these initiatives within their organizations get clarity around what is happening in the industry. The survey examines how organizations are using social and collaborative tools within their organizations for their employee base (not customer or public [...]
SaaS And Cloud Computing Taking Off With Financials And Accounting Professionals
Proformative, an online community for corporate, finance, accounting, treasury and related professionals, recently conducted an online survey of their members and found that these professionals are more open to SaaS and Cloud Computing than ever before. We have to keep in mind that this survey and report was sponsored by Netsuite and we should take [...]
Saugatuck Study Predicts Every Business Category On The Cloud By 2015
Saugatuck Technology, Connecticut based Research and Consulting firm, released a new report today titled Key SaaS, PaaS and IaaS Trends Through 2015 – Business Transformation via the Cloud based on the analysis of global surveys, interviews, etc.. The interesting prediction of this report is that all categories of business computing will move to cloud by [...]
Old meets new world: enterprise UX
A few days ago, I got a message from Derek Singleton of Software Advice telling me about a survey they’re conducting: Ten Consumer Web UI Themes We’d Like to See in Business Applications is what it is called Software Advice apparently is a company offering free advice for software buyers, and although I don’t have [...]
Survey Says Large Enterprises Are Already Active In The Cloud
On the sidelines of Dreamforce, I had a chance to talk to two people who have their hands dirty in the enterprise IT. During our conversation, one of them mentioned to me that he wouldn’t be surprised if an analyst firm comes out and says that all the enterprises are active in cloud computing in [...]
Clouds and my Coffee
Sydney is an amazing city, much like most Western large cities in many ways and much different too. The CloudBlog team decided to check on how Sydney perceives cloud computing – extremely well it seems. Within a half dozen meetings and one keynote from CloudBlogger Peter Coffee it…
Horses for Sources and the London School of Economics Launch Groundbreaking Study into Cloud Business Services
Phil Fersht is a respected analyst and consultant, fellow Enterprise Irregular, Founder and CEO of Horses for Sources, a blog and research firm focused on all issues related to outsourcing. Because of the importance of his new initiative, I’ll quote his entire post below, with his permission: “Folks – we’re delighted to announce that today [...]
Enterprises Consider Business Agility As A Primary Driver Towards Cloud
I recently had a chance to read a Sandhill.com report titled Leaders In The Cloud. It is a pretty comprehensive report analyzing the business value of cloud computing for both customers and vendors. This report has a quantitative survey of IT executives from businesses of all sizes and shapes. Anyone wanting to understand the cloud [...]
Research Shows Increased Cloud Adoption But Concerns Remain
Mimecast, a provider of cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, released the results of a survey sponsored by them. As it is always with any vendor sponsored research, one should take it with a grain of salt. However, it does offer some insight into cloud adoption in US and UK. I will highlight [...]
How well do you know Technical Communicators and their tools?
A few months ago we conducted a survey of over 300 Technical Communicators from a cross section of industries and company sizes. The results surprised us. Not only did we learn that most Technical Communicators believe that in order to use Wiki’s you needed to know Wiki text, but that they were rarely using any [...]
How far would you go to get a job in todays market redux
Sarah Jones over at the IT Job Board UK has some interesting coverage on how far would you go to get a job in today’s market. In Mid 2009, I wrote about the idea that people would alter their skill sets and knowledge to land any gig in the area. At that point, it was [...]
Enterprises Sneaking Into Public Clouds?
Image via CrunchBase There is a widespread opinion among pundits and cloud practitioners that enterprises are running away from public clouds. Part of the reason for this impression is the real security concerns about the cloud and the rest is due to the misinformation campaign unleashed by vendors who have a lot to lose in [...]
The Enterprise 2.0 Report Card for 2009
Despite a lackluster economy Enterprise 2.0 has emerged stronger and better prepared for 2010. In fact, most Enterprise 2.0 solution providers saw increased year over year revenue growth. Yet Enterprise 2.0 ROI value is still in question and vendors are not equipped to counter the arguments. Expect vendors to close that gap in 2010. <Click [...]
