{"id":2243,"date":"2012-06-21T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T10:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jun\/21\/companies-gaining-more-trust-cloud-says-survey\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T10:49:03","slug":"companies-gaining-more-trust-in-the-cloud-says-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/companies-gaining-more-trust-in-the-cloud-says-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies gaining more trust in the cloud, says survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual North Bridge Venture Partners survey into cloud computing trends has revealed that more and more companies are starting to get their heads around cloud as a concept, among other findings.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, entitled &lsquo;2012 Future of Cloud Computing&rsquo;, utilised supporting evidence from major players such as VMWare and Microsoft and is in collaboration with the 451 Group.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its second year, the survey also noted that whilst software-as-a-service (SaaS) is still the leading service used, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) will gain significantly in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>North Bridge asked 785 cloud professionals &ndash; including vendors and industry experts &ndash; about a wide range of issues impacting cloud computing, with certain trends noticeable.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, 50% of respondents said they were &ldquo;confident&rdquo; that &ldquo;cloud solutions are viable for mission critical business applications&rdquo; &ndash; in other words, they don&rsquo;t think the cloud will fail them for their business, despite &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual North Bridge Venture Partners survey into cloud computing trends has revealed that more and more companies are starting to get their heads around cloud as a concept, among other findings.<br \/>\nThe survey, entitled &lsquo;2012 Future of Cloud Comp&#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-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","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=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}