{"id":4799,"date":"2012-11-27T00:32:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T00:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/nov\/27\/cloud-rise-new-zealand-firms-spend-more\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T00:32:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T00:32:11","slug":"cloud-on-the-rise-in-new-zealand-as-firms-spend-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-on-the-rise-in-new-zealand-as-firms-spend-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud on the rise in New Zealand as firms spend more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research published by analysts Frost &amp; Sullivan this week has revealed that over half of New Zealand companies surveyed are looking to increase their cloud budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Two in five organisations which use cloud services in New Zealand spend more than 10% of their total IT budget on the cloud, whilst 57% of organisations intend to increase their cloudy budgets in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its State of Cloud Computing New Zealand 2012 research, Frost &amp; Sullivan examined the usual metrics concerning the cloud &ndash; primarily the biggest drivers, concerns, as well as costs.<\/p>\n<p>The research found that software as a service (SaaS) was, unsurprisingly, the most commonly used cloud model, with lower costs, standardisation, and seamless integration with legacy systems cited as the main reasons for SaaS success. This doesn&rsquo;t come as a huge surprise, as it hits prevalent trends.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, security was cited as the most important criterion &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research published by analysts Frost &amp; Sullivan this week has revealed that over half of New Zealand companies surveyed are looking to increase their cloud budgets.<br \/>\nTwo in five organisations which use cloud services in New Zealand spend more than 1&#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-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","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=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}