{"id":16940,"date":"2015-09-01T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=233911"},"modified":"2015-09-01T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:10:12","slug":"cloud-strategy-still-tentative-for-many-uk-corporations-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-strategy-still-tentative-for-many-uk-corporations-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud strategy still tentative for many UK corporations \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>IT managers and CIOs should not feel they\u2019ve missed the boat as the majority of enterprises have only just started their cloud journey, according to a new enterprise study.<\/p>\n

If a study of 200 senior IT managers in large public and private sector organisations is an accurate reflection of the nation\u2019s IT, only 3 per cent of enterprises have arrived at their final cloud destination. Not far from half (41 per cent) of IT managers surveyed were categorised as \u2018still taking their first tentative steps towards cloud\u2019 by the survey conductor Vanson Bourne. The study, run on behalf of UK cloud services provider Redcentric, also identified another significantly large group (32 per cent) that said they\u2019re only half way to their cloud destination.<\/p>\n

The study also identified the five types of personality trait that emerge among IT managers and CIOs as the pressure to adopt cloud technology builds. Five genres of manager were identified – in ascending order of caution – as Experimenters, Evolutionaries, Accelerators, Progressives and Cautionaries.<\/p>\n

The relative proportions of these self-identified personality types did not always match the spread of cloud installations, however. Four per cent of cloud managers identified themselves as \u2018risk-taking experimenters\u2019 who were \u2018willing to accept the ups and downs of moving to the cloud and not entirely sure the direction they will take\u2019. This roughly equated to the proportion of managers (3%) who were satisfied they had completed their cloud journey.<\/p>\n

Equal numbers of IT mangers and CIOs saw themselves as Accelerators (16%) who want to move to the cloud as fast as possible and Progressives (16%) who want to use cloud to make bold business changes. Taken together, these categories indicate that 32 per cent of the study group are frustrated in their ambitions for the cloud. This matched exactly the number (32 per cent) of companies that have yet to reach the half way point of their cloud migration.<\/p>\n

The majority of the study group (50 per cent) identified themselves as Evolutionary and stated that they take a steady approach where cloud is a natural progression for the business.<\/p>\n

There is a significant group of Cautionaries (15 per cent) who are most cynical about cloud overall. However, only 3 per cent of the group have not embarked on cloud projects, which indicates that 12 per cent of IT managers and CIOs have embarked on a cloud migration without having any faith in the technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to help UK organisations understand where they are and where their journey is likely to take them next,\u201d said Redcentric sales director Andy Mills, \u201cThe findings show there is huge untapped potential still to explore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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