{"id":15597,"date":"2015-07-01T23:55:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T23:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/jul\/02\/cio-and-head-it-not-ceo-most-likely-have-final-say-cloud-adoption\/"},"modified":"2015-07-01T23:55:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T23:55:27","slug":"cio-and-head-of-it-not-ceo-most-likely-to-have-final-say-on-cloud-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cio-and-head-of-it-not-ceo-most-likely-to-have-final-say-on-cloud-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"CIO and head of IT, not CEO, most likely to have final say on cloud adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/mustafahacalaki<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cloud usage is rocketing amongst UK business users &ndash; but the final decision making falls to the head of IT or the chief information officer in almost three in five (59%) cases, according to latest research.<\/p>\n<p>The research, from cloud hosting provider Cobweb Solutions, shows more organisations are turning to cloud for all their business needs, with UK cloud penetration reaching a high of 84%.<\/p>\n<p>78% of businesses are using more than one cloud-based service, figures which correlate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/jun\/30\/cloud-providers-arent-sharing-their-metadata-and-it-leads-bad-trust-customers\/\">with a recent Forrester survey<\/a> showing 84% of UK companies rely on two or more cloud providers, compared to Singapore (76%) and the US (62%). Half of respondents expect to eventually move their entire IT estate to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the issues with security, 99% of respondents have never experienced a breach of security when using a cloud service. The applications most likely to be stored in specific locations are accounting and finance (49%), data backup and disaster recovery (43%) and data storage (43%). 70% of respondents cited concerns over data security when moving to the cloud, with 61% concerned over data privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the issue over who has final say over cloud implementations is a worry for Cobweb, who argues businesses may be failing to see the &ldquo;holistic potential of integrated cloud solutions&rdquo;, instead just seeing cloud computing as a new delivery mechanism for software.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Using a cloud computing solution can fundamentally enhance the way an organisation does business,&rdquo; Ash Patel, Cobweb director of business transformation said in a statement, adding: &ldquo;It offers the liberating ability to build entirely new services that customers and partners can easily access and make part of their daily lives.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Making best use of this liberating technology is a question not solely for the IT team, but for the whole board of directors who can use the cloud to shape a new and more effective way of doing business.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with this analysis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/mustafahacalaki<br \/>\nCloud usage is rocketing amongst UK business users &ndash; but the final decision making falls to the head of IT or the chief information officer in almost three in five (59%) cases, according to latest research.<br \/>\nThe resea&#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-15597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597","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=15597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15598,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597\/revisions\/15598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}