Which cloud products and services are gaining traction in the marketplace? Which companies are leading the charge and are poised to dominate their markets? Which cloud trends continue to be hyped with no real uptake in the market?
I recently had an interesting conversation with Sean Hackett, Research Director of Cloud Services at TheInfoPro, a division of the 451 Group, on their latest cloud study around market factors relating to growth of cloud services. Here are my five key takeaways.
Like any new technology that offers credible business value, there are also risk factors to consider. Sand Hill Group's "Leaders in the Cloud" 2010 research study found a broad range of attitudes about security, privacy, and governance.
Many executives in the Sand Hill Leaders in the Cloud study said that competing demands between core and innovation business units often tend to get resolved in favor of the core business.
Sand Hill Group's "2010 Leaders in the Cloud" study indicates a dramatic shift of budgets allocated for the cloud. From the figure below, we make the following observations.