{"id":8034,"date":"2013-07-01T23:22:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T23:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jul\/02\/cloud-being-smothered-cio-it-concerns-claims-new-report\/"},"modified":"2013-07-01T23:22:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T23:22:05","slug":"cloud-being-smothered-by-cio-it-concerns-claims-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-being-smothered-by-cio-it-concerns-claims-new-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud being \u201csmothered\u201d by CIO IT concerns, claims new report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As cloud computing continues to materialise and mature in the fabric of today&rsquo;s IT, one of the primary barriers to widespread adoption is the high proportion of legacy ICT in many companies.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s according to the latest survey, this time from NTT Europe polling 300 CIOs and IT decision makers on current trends, barriers and solutions.<\/p>\n<p>56% of those surveyed cited the complexity of their IT layout as the biggest barrier to large scale cloud adoption, with the figure rising to 70% in the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, the reason for being so attached to older IT software is financial. 28% of respondents said their legacy systems were too expensive &ndash; or valuable &ndash; to completely trash.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[CIOs] expect enterprise clouds today to be able to handle the complexity of their business engine, meet internal and external compliance requirements, and reduce the management burden on in-house IT staff,&rdquo; the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cloud computing continues to materialise and mature in the fabric of today&rsquo;s IT, one of the primary barriers to widespread adoption is the high proportion of legacy ICT in many companies.<br \/>\nThat&rsquo;s according to the latest survey, this time &#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-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","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=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}