{"id":4732,"date":"2012-11-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2452775"},"modified":"2012-11-23T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:00:00","slug":"more-businesses-using-cloud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/more-businesses-using-cloud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More Businesses Using Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies are continuing to move along with adopting cloud computing even though they haven&#8217;t completed their formal strategies for using it, according to ZDNet.com.<br \/>\nAnalyst IDC found that nearly three-quarters (69 percent) had already started using private cloud technologies, with nearly half (40 percent) saying they were using public and hybrid cloud.<br \/>\nBut while some companies are already taking the plunge, 64 percent of UK organizations said they are still &#8220;considering&#8221; what to do with the cloud (compared to 60 percent in France and 52 percent in Germany).<br \/>\nMost enterprises&#8217; cloud strategies aren\u2019t particularly sophisticated, however, and focus on the technology-related drivers for cloud adoption, such as cutting the cost of IT, rather than business-related drivers, such as creating new revenue streams, according to IDC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2452775\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies are continuing to move along with adopting cloud computing even though they haven&#8217;t completed their formal strategies for using it, according to ZDNet.com.<br \/>\nAnalyst IDC found that nearly three-quarters (69 percent) had already started using pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}