{"id":3131,"date":"2012-07-27T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2012-07-27T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:00:13","slug":"cloud-computing-businesses-favor-private-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-businesses-favor-private-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Businesses Favor Private Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Increasingly businesses are shifting their infrastructures to include some component of cloud computing. \u00a0Many businesses are risk adverse in their approach and wary of adopting services hosted in the public cloud. \u00a0In fact, more than half of businesses working with Cloud Service Providers (CSP) are opting for private clouds while about a third are choosing public cloud services. \u00a0That’s based on a report by CA Technologies<\/a> called “Service Providers Put Their Heads in the Cloud”.<\/p>\n

The CA report surveyed Cloud Service Providers, asking them about their business and their customers. \u00a0On average, CSP’s expect that their businesses will grow by 30 percent this year. \u00a0These cloud vendors are exceptionally upbeat about their business and their ability to execute on their business plans. \u00a0Increasingly, in order to better differentiate themselves, CSPs are targeting the specific needs of different vertical markets.<\/p>\n

When asked about their greatest challenges, CSP’s ranked the following issues as ones that they’ve had to contend with:<\/p>\n