{"id":3755,"date":"2012-09-24T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/sep\/24\/cios-embracing-infectious-cloud-how-does-research-compare\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T09:14:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:14:29","slug":"cios-embracing-infectious-cloud-but-how-does-research-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cios-embracing-infectious-cloud-but-how-does-research-compare\/","title":{"rendered":"CIOs embracing &quot;infectious&quot; cloud &#8211; but how does research compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research commissioned by Fujitsu and Microsoft and published by Connection Research has revealed that CIOs in Australia are &ldquo;embracing the realities&rdquo; of the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>In the foreword to the report, entitled &ldquo;Insights Quarterly: Cloud in Australia&rdquo;, authors Craig Baty and Greg Stone describe cloud computing as &ldquo;infectious&rdquo; and add that &ldquo;cloud has arrived, and will continue to grow in functionality and popularity&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The key takeaways from the report, which polled 179 CIOs across Australia, were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cost was the biggest driver in moving to the cloud &ndash; lower operational costs and lower capital expenditure was most important to approximately 21% of respondents<\/li>\n<li>Email and messaging was the service migrated to the cloud most frequently &ndash; 22.6% of respondents were on the way to utilising it<\/li>\n<li>Data security (48.5%) was the most important factor in choosing a cloud provider<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each question was ranked in degrees of importance, leading to a set of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research commissioned by Fujitsu and Microsoft and published by Connection Research has revealed that CIOs in Australia are &ldquo;embracing the realities&rdquo; of the cloud.<br \/>\nIn the foreword to the report, entitled &ldquo;Insights Quarterly: Cloud in &#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-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","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=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}