{"id":5360,"date":"2013-01-11T00:41:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T00:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jan\/11\/consumer-knowledge-cloud-still-vague-says-new-survey\/"},"modified":"2013-01-11T00:41:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T00:41:26","slug":"consumer-knowledge-of-cloud-still-vague-says-new-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/consumer-knowledge-of-cloud-still-vague-says-new-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer knowledge of cloud still vague, says new survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the analysts predicting cloud computing to rise and rise in 2013, it can be refreshing to get a consumer perspective on how they use the cloud and their overall knowledge of it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the signs don&rsquo;t appear to be good &ndash; a new survey from UK-based hosting group Webfusion has revealed that two thirds of UK consumers don&rsquo;t have a clear view of what the cloud entails.<\/p>\n<p>Webfusion polled over 1,000 people, with their findings giving little credence to a consumer shift in cloud perception.<\/p>\n<p>When asked the question &lsquo;when it comes to computers, do you understand what &lsquo;cloud&rsquo; means?&rsquo;, just over a third (33.8%) related most closely to the response &lsquo;yes, I have a clear understanding&rsquo;. 28.5% emphatically said &lsquo;no!&rsquo; whilst 18.3% agreed with the response &lsquo;I have some understanding&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Not particularly good signs there and the response was similar when concerning understanding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the analysts predicting cloud computing to rise and rise in 2013, it can be refreshing to get a consumer perspective on how they use the cloud and their overall knowledge of it.<br \/>\nYet the signs don&rsquo;t appear to be good &ndash; a new survey from&#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-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360","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=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}