{"id":11858,"date":"2014-11-24T00:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T00:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/nov\/24\/enterprise-cloud-adoption-goes-and-bets-are-sdn-and-nfv-make-most-it\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T00:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T00:53:33","slug":"enterprise-cloud-adoption-goes-up-and-the-bets-are-on-sdn-and-nfv-to-make-the-most-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/enterprise-cloud-adoption-goes-up-and-the-bets-are-on-sdn-and-nfv-to-make-the-most-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise cloud adoption goes up \u2013 and the bets are on SDN and NFV to make the most of it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing Study has found the number of firms who have at least a portion of their computing infrastructure in the cloud continues to go up – but it’s the technology underneath this adoption which is the most interesting.<\/p>\n

The latest research, which polled 1672 respondents and aimed to measure cloud computing trends among technology decision makers, found over a third (38%) were “comfortable” hosting in the cloud given the state of current cloud offerings, and 56% were still weighing up their options.<\/p>\n

As cloud usage goes up, backlog theoretically goes down, and so this study proves. 69% of respondents have at least something in the cloud, up from 61% the year before and 57% in 2012. In comparison, only 18% say they plan to deploy within the next 12 months, down from 24% in 2013.<\/p>\n

The signs only point up. 63% of respondents say cloud computing increases IT agility, while IT innovation (61%) and employee collaboration (56%) were also highly cited.<\/p>\n

Yet the more interesting facet of this report is through emerging technologies. 61% of those polled admitted their organisations were looking at investing in software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV) to get the most agility out of their cloud investments.<\/p>\n

Network bandwidth delivery speed was also a key boon for cloud adoption, according to 49% of respondents. IT complexity eased for 55% of those polled, but interestingly, cloud has little to no effect on the overall IT headcount. 17% of respondents said it was increasing, 20% decreasing, and 52% said it had no impact.<\/p>\n

Three quarters (74%) said they were either very or somewhat confident in the security of their information assets in the cloud, yet a lot of external cloud projects end up winging their way back to IT. The issues raised were lack of skillset within departments and security concerns (59%).<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the study shows interesting if not surprising progress for enterprise cloud. A report released earlier this month<\/a> from CipherCloud and Gigaom found that while most enterprises are in the cloud, they’re reluctant about using it to develop enterprise applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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