Four out of five executives agree: choosing the cloud is a smart value proposition.
Research from Host Analytics and conducted by Dimensional Research found that for four out of five business execs, the cloud is chosen for its value over any other factor, according to an article on CloudComputingNews.net.
A similar number of employees surveyed said that it’s beneficial for them to use cloud applications.
The research talked to more than 300 CIOs and business executives and found various benefits to cloud adoption, which may perhaps shift the balance as IT budgets are being prepared for 2013.
When asked for the reasons a cloud app was chosen over other, on-premise options, the disparity between business executives and CIOs was stark.
Value was the obvious factor for execs (80%), whereas compliance was the most important component for CIOs (58%); value (53%) and greater competitive advantage (51%) completed the top three.
Compliance is a vital and underrated reason for utilizing the cloud. Sixty-one percent of survey respondents said they have out-of-date, business-critical software, and 14% said their on-premise software hadn’t been upgraded in four or more years.
More than one in three CIOs stated that while their company didn’t have plans for any solution, the cloud seemed a better fit.