{"id":14342,"date":"2015-05-12T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/may\/12\/uk-cloud-adoption-continues-rise-and-ws2003-shutdown-will-accelerate-it-further\/"},"modified":"2015-05-12T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:00:38","slug":"uk-cloud-adoption-continues-to-rise-and-ws2003-shutdown-will-accelerate-it-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/uk-cloud-adoption-continues-to-rise-and-ws2003-shutdown-will-accelerate-it-further\/","title":{"rendered":"UK cloud adoption continues to rise \u2013 and WS2003 shutdown will accelerate it further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/portishead1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Newly released figures from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) show that cloud computing adoption rate in the UK currently stands at 84%, with that number expecting to sizeably increase due to the shutdown of Windows Server (WS) 2003.<\/p>\n<p>WS2003 will have its support stopped on July 14 and, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/apr\/28\/windows-server-2003-end-life-why-many-organisations-are-leaving-it-quite-late\/\">as this publication has previously examined<\/a>, many companies are leaving it to the last minute to finalise data migration plans. The CIF results confirm it; 58% of companies polled are still supporting the server, down only 2% from the year before. One solution is to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy, migrating easier data to the cloud but keeping others on-premise until the time is right. The CIF believes this uptake will significantly boost the overall numbers of UK cloud adoption.<\/p>\n<p>78% of respondents are using two or more cloud-based services, according to the research of 250 senior IT and business decision makers from the public and private sectors. By early 2016, CIF predicts that 86% of UK-based firms will formally use at least one cloud service.<\/p>\n<p>Seven in 10 (70%) of those polled who are already using cloud expect that number to go up in the next 12 months, while eight in 10 (79%) say they include consideration of cloud services within their wider IT strategy.<\/p>\n<p>CRM is the most likely application to become cloud-based over the next 12 months, according to respondents; followed by disaster recovery, data storage, email, and collaboration services. Earlier this week disaster recovery specialists Databarracks issued a bullish prediction that disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) would become the most adopted cloud service of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cloud computing has come a long way in just a few short years,&rdquo; said Alex Hilton, Cloud Industry Forum CEO. &ldquo;Cloud has moved from the edge of the IT estate to the centre, and it is now largely regarded as just another way that we do IT.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &ldquo;Importantly, it is, by and large, delivering the benefits the industry promised it would deliver.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/portishead1<br \/>\nNewly released figures from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) show that cloud computing adoption rate in the UK currently stands at 84%, with that number expecting to sizeably increase due to the shutdown of Windows Server (WS) 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14343,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions\/14343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}