{"id":8556,"date":"2013-08-08T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/aug\/09\/opinion-cloud-services-europe-still-fiercely-divided\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T23:23:09","slug":"opinion-on-cloud-services-in-europe-still-fiercely-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/opinion-on-cloud-services-in-europe-still-fiercely-divided\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion on cloud services in Europe still fiercely divided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research from Quocirca in conjunction with CA Technologies has revealed that opinion on cloud services in Europe is still fiercely divided.<\/p>\n<p>The Quocirca report divides respondents into three potential categories; &lsquo;enthusiasts&rsquo;, &lsquo;avoiders&rsquo; and &lsquo;blockers&rsquo;, and found that overall 57% of those polled were &lsquo;cloud positive&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, 22% were considered enthusiasts, for whom &ldquo;cloud is the future for much of [their] IT requirement&rdquo;, whilst a further 35% said they evaluate options to supplement in-house IT resources.<\/p>\n<p>23%, interestingly, avoid cloud based services whilst a further 3% say they block their use altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The UK figures reveal more overall who were cloud-positive &ndash; 60.3% compared to 57% &#8211; although only 17.5% were enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to note the differences between job sector. Europe-wide results show that the telco sector is the most comfortable with cloud services &ndash; nearly 80% were positive. Compare and contrast with the government sector, where 30% polled &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from Quocirca in conjunction with CA Technologies has revealed that opinion on cloud services in Europe is still fiercely divided.<br \/>\nThe Quocirca report divides respondents into three potential categories; &lsquo;enthusiasts&rsquo;, &lsquo;avoid&#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-8556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556","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=8556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}