{"id":6019,"date":"2013-02-21T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/feb\/21\/rackspace-examines-cloudy-cost-savings-new-survey\/"},"modified":"2013-02-21T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:17:37","slug":"rackspace-examines-cloudy-cost-savings-in-new-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/rackspace-examines-cloudy-cost-savings-in-new-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace examines cloudy cost savings in new survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly nine in 10 companies agree that moving to the cloud has resulted in cost savings, according to a new survey from open cloud provider Rackspace.<\/p>\n<p>The research looked at over 1300 US and UK-based companies, as well as conducting qualitative interviews with executives surveyed.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&rsquo;s not the biggest surprise that a cloud vendor is advocating companies moving to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>In a whitepaper illustrating the research, this was made abundantly clear in terms of what the survey had found. Cloud computing &ldquo;saves money&rdquo;, &ldquo;helps increase competitiveness&rdquo; and &ldquo;offers exciting opportunities for businesses of all sizes&rdquo;, according to the research.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good. But what statistics are in the report to back up this assertion?<\/p>\n<p>88% of businesses using the cloud stated that they have saved money as a result, with three in five believing that cloud computing has improved infrastructure efficiency, enabling more time &ldquo;to focus on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly nine in 10 companies agree that moving to the cloud has resulted in cost savings, according to a new survey from open cloud provider Rackspace.<br \/>\nThe research looked at over 1300 US and UK-based companies, as well as conducting qualitative intervi&#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-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019","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=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}