(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Seven out of ten companies currently using cloud-based services plan to move additional applications to the cloud, and most within the next 12 months, according to a new study from email management company Mimecast (www.mimecast.com).
The study, released Thursday, also counters the long held assumption that security and integration concerns prevent enterprises from adopting the cloud. While security and integration issues are clearly users’ biggest fears about cloud computing, they have not dissuaded companies from implementing cloud-based applications within their corporate infrastructure, and, once installed, findings suggest strong satisfaction with cloud computing.
“This research shows that once enterprises experience cloud-based applications, their fears about integration, reliability and costs are immediately alleviated,” Mimecast chief executive officer Peter Bauer said in a statement. “The survey’s results point to a bright future ahead for cloud computing as more and more companies look to the cloud to create an efficient and agile organization.”
Mimecast offers a full range of SaaS-based email archiving, continuity, security and policy control services. Its survey examined the perception and adoption of cloud computing solutions among 565 respondents responsible for managing their organization’s IT operations and budget across the US and Canada in the Fall of 2009. According to the study, 70 percent of companies already using cloud computing solutions are planning on moving additional applications to the cloud, and a majority of them are looking to do so in the next 12 months, illustrating that respondents have used cloud-based solutions, have seen their business and operational value, and want to see that patten repeat in other application areas.
The study notes, however, that certain industries are adopting cloud technologies faster than others. The top three industries adopting cloud computing solutions are technology (with 53 percent), financial services (40 percent) and legal (37 percent), showing that respondents within heavily-regulated markets such as legal and financial services do not share the belief that cloud-based services make it harder to prove compliance with industry regulations. Also, government ranks the lowest in terms of adoption, with only 19 percent using cloud-based solutions.
Among the respondents already using cloud computing solutions, email and CRM proved to be the most valuable. A third of respondents moved email management to the cloud, 26 percent deployed cloud-based CRM systems, 26 percent moved email archiving and 22 percent have moved storage functions.
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