{"id":1515,"date":"2012-05-11T15:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/may\/11\/unicorns-more-likely-cloud-migration-says-survey\/"},"modified":"2012-05-11T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:12:41","slug":"unicorns-more-likely-than-cloud-migration-says-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/unicorns-more-likely-than-cloud-migration-says-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Unicorns more likely than cloud migration, says survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many IT decision makers feel they are more likely to have a close encounter with a flying saucer than see the completion of their company&rsquo;s cloud migration in the next six months.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of a number of alarming findings contained within Cisco&rsquo;s 2012 Global Cloud Networking survey this week.<\/p>\n<p>The company polled 1300 IT decision makers in 13 countries spanning five continents, and revealed a lack of universal confidence in the cloud among IT professionals unless a proper cloud migration strategy is adopted.<\/p>\n<p>The survey included a series of irreverent comparisons designed to put &ldquo;cloud deployments in perspective&rdquo;, with 31% of the experts surveyed stating that they could train for a marathon or grow a mullet in less time than it would take to migrate their business fully to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a quarter of those polled stated they would in the next six months be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many IT decision makers feel they are more likely to have a close encounter with a flying saucer than see the completion of their company&rsquo;s cloud migration in the next six months.<br \/>\nThis was one of a number of alarming findings contained within Cis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}