{"id":3502,"date":"2012-09-06T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=c49457e563c6ec869cff3b6882397281"},"modified":"2012-09-06T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:22:00","slug":"study-44-4-of-it-pros-say-they-will-move-to-the-cloud-in-the-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/study-44-4-of-it-pros-say-they-will-move-to-the-cloud-in-the-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: 44.4% of IT Pros Say They Will Move to the Cloud In the Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"org fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qumu.com\">Qumu<\/a> today announced the results of their <strong>2012 IT in the Cloud Assessment Project<\/strong>. A survey of over 700 IT professionals conducted online by Toluna found that 44.4% of them will be moving applications to the cloud within the next 12 months, with up to 33.4% saying that this will include up to half of their applications. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>54.5% of respondents touted the benefits of making the move to cloud-based applications. When asked what benefits they thought were most important, surprisingly, more than 30% of IT professionals said better security. This result indicates that companies are becoming more comfortable with the quality of security in cloud based apps. After security, other benefits identified are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Cost savings once deployed \u2013 26.9%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Better mobility support \u2013 25.9%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Time saved not having to update infrastructure \u2013 22%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Quick deployment \u2013 18.5%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Better for the environment \u2013 12.6%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Elasticity to scale up or down as needed \u2013 11%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Outsourced system support and maintenance \u2013 10.9%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even as IT professionals report they are planning to move applications to the cloud, many organizations already have. The survey found that fully 44.9% of IT professionals are already running some applications in the cloud. The top applications include email (25.9%), storage (24%) and document management (13.9%). Other applications include project management (11%), CRM (10.3%), marketing automation (6.8%), video communication (10.3%) and employee portals (11.3%).<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-12037\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Enterprises are adopting collaborative cloud-based solutions to enable their people to be more connected and productive. For many companies, video communications have become an integrated part of the corporate culture. 55% of respondents site benefits of using a secure YouTube-like service for enterprise video sharing. According to the survey, the biggest benefits that IT professionals see from using such services include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Increased access to training videos \u2013 26.1%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Gives employees a \u201cvoice\u201d to share ideas \u2013 24.3%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Increased access to subject matter experts knowledge \u2013 23.6%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Better employee collaboration \u2013 22.5%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Improved organization and search of company video assets \u2013 20.6%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, the survey found surprising differences between large enterprises and small to medium sized businesses. In all cases, large enterprises were more favorable to cloud-based solutions than SMBs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Running current applications in the cloud (51% vs. 42.4%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Seeing benefits in migrating applications to the cloud (59.5% vs.<br \/>\n52.5%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\"><strong>Seeing benefits of using a secure enterprise video-sharing service<br \/>\n(63.3% vs. 47.3%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe results showing that large enterprises are more inclined to Cloud applications is somewhat surprising. Some may expect large companies to be concerned with Cloud security,\u201d said Ray Hood, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Qumu. \u201cWe believe that larger companies have more history with IT outsourcing and see the Cloud as the logical next step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survey results come alongside the release of Qumu\u2019s latest whitepaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Finfo.rimage.com%2FCloudSurveyandWhitepaperPressRelease_ManagingBusinessVideointheCloudPressRelease.html&amp;esheet=50398623&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Managing+Business+Video+in+the+cloud+and+Hybrid+Clouds&amp;index=2&amp;md5=05d800be5d202246d3356dad0edef976\">Managing Business Video in the cloud and Hybrid Clouds<\/a>, as well as Qumu\u2019s attendance at IBC 2012, the premier annual conference and exhibition for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of electronic media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=37ebb945-b489-4ea8-8a6d-d321acafc1bf\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bXwhjht6sLwSRc5Jaor5fD8odBM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bXwhjht6sLwSRc5Jaor5fD8odBM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bXwhjht6sLwSRc5Jaor5fD8odBM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bXwhjht6sLwSRc5Jaor5fD8odBM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/rO5UDTUiOr4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>44.4% of IT professionals say they will be moving applications to        the cloud within the next year            Better security was cited as the top reason     SAN BRUNO, Calif.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Qumu, www.qumu.com,        the leading busin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,885],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-toluna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}