{"id":8593,"date":"2013-08-14T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/aug\/15\/rackspace-survey-hybrid-cloud-future-three-five-enterprises\/"},"modified":"2013-08-14T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T23:23:09","slug":"rackspace-survey-hybrid-cloud-is-future-for-three-in-five-enterprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/rackspace-survey-hybrid-cloud-is-future-for-three-in-five-enterprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace survey: Hybrid cloud is future for three in five enterprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&rsquo;t move at the moment for surveys advocating the importance of hybrid cloud strategy &ndash; and this latest one, from Rackspace Hosting and conducted by Vanson Bourne, is no different.<\/p>\n<p>60% of IT top brass see the hybrid cloud as the bright, shiny future for IT operations, with a third of that number (19%) completely integrated, compared to only 41% who are partially hybrid-oriented.<\/p>\n<p>The primary reason for hybrid adoption over pure public cloud systems was more control, according to 59% of those polled. This was followed by greater security (54%), reliability (48%) and cost (46%). Overall, it&rsquo;s safe to say that a majority of respondents saw multiple benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps not surprisingly, the US is more advanced than the UK in hybrid developments; 80% cited the hybrid cloud as a game changing strategy, compared to just 64% of UK-based respondents.<\/p>\n<p>But according to Nigel Beighton, VP of technology &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&rsquo;t move at the moment for surveys advocating the importance of hybrid cloud strategy &ndash; and this latest one, from Rackspace Hosting and conducted by Vanson Bourne, is no different.<br \/>\n60% of IT top brass see the hybrid cloud as the brigh&#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-8593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593","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=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}