According to a new study by Gartner, cost, innovation, and agility drive cloud technology adoption. There is an excellent synopsis on Talkincloud.com.
The most commonly cited reasons the survey found for deploying SaaS were for development and testing production/mission-critical workloads,” Gartner Research Vice President Joanne Correia said in a prepared statement. “This is an affirmation that more businesses are comfortable with cloud technology deployments beyond the front office running sales force automation (SFA) and email.
- 44 percent of respondents said overall cost reduction is their main reason for investing in cloud apps. Senior business executives (excluding CIOs) also rated cost reduction as a key benefit of investing in cloud apps, but not at the same rate as IT professionals.
- Researchers said the key drivers for SaaS included that “hands-off” IT enables an organization to redirect a limited in-house staff to other responsibilities since the SaaS provider is responsible for ongoing IT support.
- Security, privacy and fear of government snooping remain leading concerns for respondents who do not use public cloud-based models.
- The traditional deployment model for on-premises software is expected to shrink from 34 percent today to 18 percent by 2017.
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