{"id":1687,"date":"2012-05-22T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T09:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/may\/22\/cloud-adoption-cautious-asia-pacific-retailers-survey-says\/"},"modified":"2012-05-22T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T09:40:53","slug":"cloud-adoption-cautious-from-asia-pacific-retailers-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-adoption-cautious-from-asia-pacific-retailers-survey-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud adoption \u2018cautious\u2019 from Asia Pacific retailers, survey says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research from the International Data Corporation (IDC) suggests that adoption of cloud from retailers in the Asia Pacific region is currently slow but will progress substantially within five years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey, only 19% of the 56 respondents were currently pushing through a cloud adoption strategy for their business, but 32% stated they were considering implementing cloud within the next two-to-five years.<\/p>\n<p>IDC further noted in their research that the three main barriers to widespread Asia Pacific cloud adoption were data security, firewalls and integration to internal IT systems.<\/p>\n<p>The report, entitled &ldquo;Cloud Adoption in the Asia Pacific &ndash; Retail Industry&rdquo;, was carried out between December 2011 and January 2012 among mid-to-large retail companies across the Asia Pacific region, covering Australia, China, Malaysia, New Zealand, India and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Research manager Kumar Gs Das called the Asian retail industry &ldquo;cautious&rdquo; about cloud and added: &ldquo;The majority of them recognises that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from the International Data Corporation (IDC) suggests that adoption of cloud from retailers in the Asia Pacific region is currently slow but will progress substantially within five years.<br \/>\nAccording to the survey, only 19% of the 56 respondent&#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-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","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=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}