{"id":18629,"date":"2015-11-11T00:22:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/nov\/11\/cloud-continues-give-companies-competitive-advantage-report-shows\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T00:22:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T00:22:17","slug":"cloud-continues-to-give-companies-competitive-advantage-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-continues-to-give-companies-competitive-advantage-report-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud continues to give companies competitive advantage, report shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/TERADAT SANTIVIVUT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More organisations are saying cloud computing gives them a competitive advantage, but fewer are saying it gives their company a significant advantage, according to the latest figures from Verizon.<\/p>\n<p>The report, the third annual &lsquo;State of the Market: Enterprise Cloud&rsquo; paper released by the telco giant, found 77% of firms cite cloud as a competitive advantage, compared with 74% this time last year. Yet only 16% argue cloud gives significant advantage this time round, down from 30% in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>37% of organisations say cloud has enabled their firm to adapt its business model, with a further 19% saying they were working towards it, and 25% saying they were considering it. By 2018, Verizon argues half of companies will be putting at least three quarters of their workloads in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon argues there are three types of persona which any company can identify with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sceptics: These companies, Verizon notes, aren&rsquo;t luddites in terms of what cloud can do for their business &ndash; they almost certainly will use SaaS apps &ndash; but are restricted on what they can do. The financial services industry is a good example. Only 6% of survey respondents expect less than 25% of their workloads in the cloud by 2018.<\/li>\n<li>The pragmatists: These are companies which are taking a measured approach to cloud, steadily creating an enterprise-class infrastructure using standard components from cloud providers tied together using APIs and orchestration services.<\/li>\n<li>The natives: These are the cloud-first, or cloud-only, businesses, using cloud-based ERP and CRM software and utilising the subscription economy, rather than buying servers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elsewhere, more than a quarter (27%) of businesses are already using private cloud, while a further 17% plan to implement it. Organisations are also becoming less cloud-phobic; 87% of those polled say they think cloud is at least as reliable as on-premises infrastructure, while four in five say it is as least as secure. 93% of companies say they are using two or more cloud providers, while a quarter are using an eye-watering 10.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Last year, the news was that cloud was being used for mission-critical workloads; now enterprises are using it to transform how they achieve that mission,&rdquo; commented Ryan Shuttleworth, cloud chief technology officer for Verizon Enterprise Solutions. &ldquo;Companies are using cloud technologies to create new customer experiences, reengineer their business processes, find new opportunities to grow, and manage risk and compliance measures,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/TERADAT SANTIVIVUT<br \/>\nMore organisations are saying cloud computing gives them a competitive advantage, but fewer are saying it gives their company a significant advantage, according to the latest figures from Verizon.<br \/>\nThe report, the third &#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-18629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629","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=18629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18630,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18629\/revisions\/18630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}