The report is based on a survey of 1,242 IT professionals familiar with their organization’s plan for the cloud. It is an assessment of current and future drivers behind cloud computing adoption in the United Sates.
Some key findings of the report are:
• Sixty-eight percent of respondents said that employee requests for cloud services have increased over the last two years.
• Sixty-six percent of respondents said that their personal use of cloud has influenced their recommendations to their organizations about moving to cloud computing.
• Forty-six percent of organizations that are implementing or maintaining cloud computing agreed that non-IT senior management was more involved in the cloud decisions that other IT decisions
• Forty-six percent of the respondents agreed that concerns with security of proprietary data or applications are the biggest barriers to cloud adoption.
• Thirty-nine percent of organizations are implementing or maintaining a cloud solution, up from 28 percent in 2011.
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