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Cloud Computing: Becoming the Norm Rather than the Exception

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing is gradually becoming the norm rather than the exception across most workplaces.

The results of IDG’s 2020 Cloud Computing Study found:

  • Only 8 percent of businesses say that they host all applications on-premise with nothing running in the cloud.
  • 59 percent say that most or all of their applications will be running in the cloud in 18 months
  • Organizations now average spending nearly one-third of their IT budget on the cloud.
  • Two-third of organizations say that they’ve introduced staff positions with titles like ‘cloud architect’, and ‘cloud system administrator’.
  • Projected cloud spending for 2020 is 59 percent higher than spending in 2018

Luc Grimond, a managing director at BCG, said that “one of the main benefits of cloud computing is access to innovation and agility. Cloud investments will have longer-term benefits, such as risk reduction, the ability to provide new and better services to business stakeholders, and improved personalization of product and service offerings.”

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