As Boston area help desk business flourishes due to the increase in Boston area cloud computing demands, the world has also increased their demand for more storage use of the cloud network. A bold prediction in this article is that a fifth of the world’s business will make the move to the cloud in the next five years. Cloud computing networks seem like a viable option to almost any business, due to the ease of locating and storing files and information on it. Cloud computing seems to be taking over the IT industry and it shows no signs of stopping.
At this week’s Gartner Summit in Sydney a suggestion that by 2016, 20 per cent of all business organisation’s IT will be purely Cloud-based was put to delegates and a panel of IT gurus. Roughly 70 per cent of an audience of around 250 agreed with the prediction. Here’s some of what the panel had to say.
Although Software AG vice president Business Infrastructure Solutions, Jignesh Shah, agreed with the statement, he expressed surprise that so many in the audience did.
“Most people here are from the larger organisations,” he noted.
“I think it will be very difficult for a lot of those organisations to become completely Cloud-based. However, the statement stipulates ‘all’ business organisations, which means drilling down to all the SMEs out there.
“A 20 per cent migration of all IT will very easily happen as we are seeing a lot of smaller organisations already outsourcing to third-party providers.”
According to Andrew Bearsley, product lead HP Application Lifecycle Management: “For small-to-medium size enterprises (SMEs) and even some larger businesses, in some ways it is actually easier to pick up a Cloud-based service and run with that, rather than re-engineer existing infrastructure.
“An obvious problem for large enterprises, however, is the scale of their existing services (and the overheads) involved in replacing them.
To read this article in its entirety found on CIO.com, click here. Do you see your business making use of the cloud by 2016 or earlier?
