{"id":3768,"date":"2013-05-23T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2013-05-23T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:00:46","slug":"cloud-computing-organizations-typically-use-two-or-more-cloud-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-organizations-typically-use-two-or-more-cloud-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Organizations Typically Use Two or More Cloud Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of Cloud Computing continues to grow among organizations of all sizes.<\/p>\n<p>An InformationWeek survey on the <a title=\"InformationWeek State of Cloud Computing in 2013 report\" href=\"http:\/\/reports.informationweek.com\/abstract\/5\/10475\/Cloud-Computing\/Research:-2013-State-Of-Cloud-Computing.html\" target=\"_blank\">State of Cloud Computing in 2013<\/a> reports the following statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>66 percent of organizations are juggling between two to five different cloud providers; 79 percent use at least two vendors<\/li>\n<li>51 percent cite the security issues as their greatest risk to using cloud services<\/li>\n<li>33 percent have not developed single sign on across their multiple cloud services<\/li>\n<li>21 percent of organizations accept the SLA terms as-is with no negotiation with the cloud vendor<\/li>\n<li>19 percent say that the performance of cloud apps beats the performance of their on-premise-hosted apps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Joe Masters Emison bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joemastersemison\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Masters Emison<\/a>, author of the InformationWeek report, writes that &#8220;Organizations that adopt the cloud generally aren\u2019t going back to on-premises deployments. In other words, the cloud isn\u2019t all hype; it does deliver. Startups, non-IT business units, consumers and the media all recognize the value. 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