“To the cloud!” A new study shows that more and more organizations are turning to cloud computing as a way to grow their business – and a way to refine their business strategy.
“The next two years will be the era of hybrid cloud, with 68 percent of customers planning to adopt hybrid cloud models — up from 49 percent today,” said Marco Limena, vice president, Hosting Service Providers Business, Microsoft. “In addition, the survey found that as customers begin to move their IT environments into the cloud, software is sticky and brand is even more important.”
The Microsoft-commissioned study, conducted by 451 Research LLC, revealed that two-thirds of software-as-a-service customers use software online that they had previously installed on-premises.
“IT professionals were very clear in their response to this survey — cloud-based computing will play an important and growing role as part of their IT portfolios moving forward,” said Michelle Bailey, vice president, Datacenter Initiatives and Digital Infrastructure, 451 Research.
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Jennifer Warnick
Microsoft News Center Staff