{"id":9401,"date":"2013-11-08T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/nov\/08\/cios-still-reluctant-adopt-cloud-says-new-survey\/"},"modified":"2013-11-08T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T00:36:07","slug":"cios-still-reluctant-to-adopt-cloud-says-new-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cios-still-reluctant-to-adopt-cloud-says-new-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"CIOs still reluctant to adopt cloud, says new survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from sourcing providers Alsbridge has revealed that, in the UK, cloud computing accounts for only one fifth of the IT budget.<\/p>\n<p>This puts doubt in the thinking that cloud adoption in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market is accelerating &ndash; or, more particularly, that executives see cloud as the cornerstone of a bright, shiny IT future.<\/p>\n<p>Last month research from Robert Half Technology revealed how cloud computing is the most lucrative skill to have in the IT job market.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this survey, of 50 UK senior IT decision makers, indicates a relatively slow uptake. IaaS is the smallest cloud market in terms of investment, with 20% of respondents using compute and only 14% using storage-based adoption.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s not to say companies aren&rsquo;t in the cloud full stop; 92% of companies are using cloud, with software as a service (SaaS) at 70% uptake and platform as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from sourcing providers Alsbridge has revealed that, in the UK, cloud computing accounts for only one fifth of the IT budget.<br \/>\nThis puts doubt in the thinking that cloud adoption in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market is accelerat&#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-9401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401","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=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}