{"id":1827,"date":"2011-01-18T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2011-01-18T07:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:00:06","slug":"cloud-computing-it-managers-are-adopting-cloud-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-it-managers-are-adopting-cloud-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing:  IT Managers are Adopting &quot;Cloud Thinking&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"CA Technologies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ca.com\/us\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">CA Technologies<\/a> has published their vendor-sponsored <a title=\"CA TEchnologies survey on cloud computing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cloud-computing-survey-points-to-arrival-of-cloud-thinking-111993864.html\" target=\"_blank\">survey <\/a>on cloud computing which documents how companies are picking up their pace in moving \u00a0from traditional on-premise computing to cloud computing. \u00a0The interesting thing about the report is the description of a new breed of IT managers that get &#8220;<a title=\"Cloud computing survey\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ca.com\/us\/register\/activity.aspx?cid=117603\" target=\"_blank\">cloud thinking<\/a>&#8220;. \u00a0It is a shift in mindset that could lead to an even more dramatic move to a new paradigm for IT in the enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>The report included the results of their cloud computing survey of IT professionals in organizations sized between 1000 and 10,000 employees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>80 percent of all companies, and 92 percent of the largest companies are using at least one cloud service<\/li>\n<li>53 percent of companies are using at least 6 cloud computing services<\/li>\n<li>44 percent of companies say that their primary motivator for moving services to the cloud has been cost savings<\/li>\n<li>35 percent of IT staff say that they are more efficient when using cloud services<\/li>\n<li>68 percent of IT executives are concerned about cloud security<\/li>\n<li>40 percent of IT executives say that they worry about loss of control and the possibility of losing their own jobs<\/li>\n<li>Organizations that are heavy users of virtualization technology internally are four times more likely to consider adopting cloud services<\/li>\n<li>75 percent of the cloud applications being used can be classified as collaboration applications, like email and web conferencing.<\/li>\n<li>58 percent of companies are using cloud computing as platform or infrastructure-as-a-service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report attributes much of the switch in thinking about the cloud to the success that many companies have had using virtualization internally. \u00a0As many as one-third of all servers in organizations are running virtualized environments, and as many as one half are planning to move mission-critical applications from non-virtualized infrastructure to virtualized machines.<\/p>\n<div 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