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Cloud Computing: Businesses Diversify their Cloud Portfolios
Businesses continue to increase their investments in the cloud. A recent survey by RightScale investigates the extent to which the cloud is being used.
The RightScale survey divided their respondents into four groups:
- Cloud Beginners (26 percent) – Businesses just getting started with their first cloud projects
- Cloud Explorers (23 percent) – Businesses that have implemented some cloud projects
- Cloud Focused (26 percent) – Businesses that have fully adopted the cloud and consider it a transformative business strategy
- Cloud Watchers (17 percent) – Businesses drawing up strategies with no projects yet underway
- Non-Cloud (8 percent) – Businesses for reasons of skepticism or cost have opted not to use or consider the cloud
The top benefits realized by using the cloud were ranked as follows
- Faster access to infrastructure
- Greater scalability
- Faster time to get applications to market
- Higher availability
The RightScale survey also found that large organizations tend to diversify their cloud portfolio. 47 percent of larges businesses say that they have a hybrid cloud strategy that makes use of both public and private cloud services and applications.
