{"id":3096,"date":"2012-07-13T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2012-07-13T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T15:00:26","slug":"the-cloud-fun-facts-about-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/the-cloud-fun-facts-about-cloud-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud: Fun Facts about Cloud Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Charles Babcock bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/charlie-babcock\/2\/573\/a26\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Babcock<\/a>, editor\u00a0at InformationWeek, recently included &#8216;5 Cloud Facts&#8217; as part of his cover story piece on an investigation on the <a title=\"Economics of Cloud Computing by Informationweek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/hardware\/data_centers\/240001236\" target=\"_blank\">economics of Cloud computing<\/a>. \u00a0Those facts came from as suite of surveys and studies done at InformationWeek. \u00a0Those facts are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>25 percent<\/strong> of IT shops are using either cloud servers or storage as part of an infrastructure-as-a-service strategy<\/li>\n<li><strong>11 percent<\/strong> of companies have a major cloud implementation<\/li>\n<li><strong>26 percent <\/strong>of companies are planning a major cloud implementation<\/li>\n<li><strong>20 percent<\/strong> of companies have a formal policy in place for evaluating cloud services<\/li>\n<li><strong>38 percent<\/strong> of companies have expressed concerns with unanticipated overrun costs from using cloud services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some<a title=\"Wired Magazine fun facts about cloud computing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/cloudline\/2012\/03\/cloud-here-to-stay\/#more-3500\" target=\"_blank\"> fun facts about cloud computing<\/a> posted by <a title=\"Todd Nielsen bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/cloudline\/members\/toddnielsen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Nielsen<\/a> at Wired magazines&#8217; \u00a0CloudLine include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>90 percent of Microsoft\u2019s 2011 R&amp;D budget was spent on cloud computing strategy and products<\/li>\n<li>The Cloud Computing market <a title=\"Cloud Computing Market size\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/cloudline\/2012\/06\/hp-cloud-discover\/\" target=\"_blank\">is expected<\/a> to reach $241 billion by 2020<\/li>\n<li>Cloud providers have increased personnel from nil in 2007 to over 550,000 in 2010<\/li>\n<li>48 percent of U.S. government agencies as part of the \u201ccloud-first\u201d policy have begun using the cloud<\/li>\n<li>30% of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) used cloud software in 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Intel's List of Cloud Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/download.intel.com\/newsroom\/kits\/istcs\/pdfs\/CloudFunFacts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Intel has a list of cloud facts<\/a> too that includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 2% of electricity in the US is consumed by data centers<\/li>\n<li>It is expected that with the technology of today, the equivalent of about 45 new coal plans will be needed to power data centers by 2015 without dramatic efficiency improvements<\/li>\n<li>A new server is added to the cloud for every 600 smart phones or 120 tablets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-cloud-fun-facts-about-cloud-computing%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-cloud-fun-facts-about-cloud-computing%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" 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