{"id":2460,"date":"2012-07-03T11:13:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T11:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jul\/03\/what-trends-can-be-taken-ciscos-uk-cloud-adoption-research\/"},"modified":"2012-07-03T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T11:13:50","slug":"what-trends-can-be-taken-from-ciscos-uk-cloud-adoption-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/what-trends-can-be-taken-from-ciscos-uk-cloud-adoption-research\/","title":{"rendered":"What trends can be taken from Cisco\u2019s UK cloud adoption research?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research recently published by Cisco Systems has revealed that cloud usage in the United Kingdom and Ireland is becoming increasingly mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco, who recently brought out their cloud networking app, found a number of interesting results in their &lsquo;CloudWatch Summer&rsquo; report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nine tenths of those polled saw the cloud as an important process &ndash; up 38% from last year<\/li>\n<li>Nearly a third see cloud as being critical to their company &ndash; up 24% from last year<\/li>\n<li>Security is less of a concern although still a worry &ndash; just over half saw said they had security concerns, down 20% from last year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This certainly aligns with other research Cisco has done this year on the subject. This year&rsquo;s Global Cloud Networking Survey showed that worldwide cloud adoption would quadruple by the year&rsquo;s end.<\/p>\n<p>It could be argued that the numbers almost appear to be an irrelevance if the arrows keep pointing up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research recently published by Cisco Systems has revealed that cloud usage in the United Kingdom and Ireland is becoming increasingly mainstream.<br \/>\nCisco, who recently brought out their cloud networking app, found a number of interesting results in their&#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-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","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=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}