{"id":6915,"date":"2013-04-11T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/apr\/11\/how-to-make-cloud-computing-pay\/"},"modified":"2013-04-11T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T08:30:00","slug":"how-to-make-cloud-computing-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-to-make-cloud-computing-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make cloud computing pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relying on cloud computing strategies to free up dollars and time that can quickly be re-invested in product and service innovation emerged as the highest priority for respondents in a recent&nbsp;Rackspace&nbsp;survey.<\/p>\n<p>While cost reductions were significant, the greatest contributions were seen in investments in innovation (48%), new product &amp; service development (45%), and boosting sale efforts (38%).<\/p>\n<p>Rackspace recently commissioned a study with market research firm&nbsp;Vanson Bourne, who surveyed 1,300 organizations in the UK and the U.S., including 1,000 Small &amp; Medium Enterprises (SME) and 300 enterprises with 1,000 employees or more.&nbsp; The methodology included coverage of Financial Services,&nbsp;Retail, IT\/Technology, Manufacturing,&nbsp;Business&nbsp;and Professional Services, Media, Logistics, and&nbsp;Mobile&nbsp;Telecommunications sectors, with a further small representative group from other sectors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rackspace also partners often with the&nbsp;Manchester Business School&nbsp;to complete qualitative research, which they also did on this project.&nbsp; You can find &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relying on cloud computing strategies to free up dollars and time that can quickly be re-invested in product and service innovation emerged as the highest priority for respondents in a recent&nbsp;Rackspace&nbsp;survey.<br \/>\nWhile cost reductions were signi&#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-6915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6915","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=6915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}