{"id":12742,"date":"2015-03-16T00:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T00:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/mar\/16\/cio-focus-public-cloud-viable-option-not-top-consideration\/"},"modified":"2015-03-16T00:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T00:50:33","slug":"the-cio-focus-on-public-cloud-a-viable-option-but-not-a-top-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-cio-focus-on-public-cloud-a-viable-option-but-not-a-top-consideration\/","title":{"rendered":"The CIO focus on public cloud: “A viable option, but not a top consideration”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A survey from analyst house Gartner has found that infrastructure and operations leaders should institute a ‘cloud-first’ consideration for every project on an application by application basis.<\/p>\n

The report, entitled “Flipping to Digital Leadership: The 2015 CIO Agenda”, surveyed more than 2800 CIOs and found public cloud was an option for IT projects, but only a first consideration for a small minority.<\/p>\n

15% of those polled aren’t considering cloud computing for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) projects, while 9% aren’t factoring cloud for software as a service (SaaS). Nearly half of respondents have shifted their priorities from cloud as a concept to a viable option, while 71% of CIOs polled felt an increasing need for context-aware services.<\/p>\n

Gartner also asserts its ‘nexus of forces’ – mobile, social, cloud and information – first introduced in 2012<\/a> is no longer on the horizon, and reports CIOs aren’t looking enough at the long-term future. “If they haven’t already, I&O leaders must ready themselves and their organisations for a culture of experimentation, innovation and deployment of post-nexus technologies,” the analysts argue.<\/p>\n

Regular readers of CloudTech<\/em> will recall adoption rates of public cloud among CIOs isn’t what it could be. In January<\/a>, investment firm Piper Jaffray polled 112 CIOs across eight industries and found the security of public cloud was cited by 35% as a primary reason for keeping data on premise. Regarding specific vendors, AWS remained the most popular public cloud provider among CIOs, with Microsoft and Rackspace completing the top three.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, numbers from tech giant SAP in association with Oxford Economics found 99% of its global respondents, based on the C-suite, heads of business units and IT and operations executives, said cloud computing was part of their company’s business strategy. Seven in 10 (69%) say they expect to make moderate to heavy cloud investments over the next three years, as well as step up their migration of core business functions to the cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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