Version One has produced the findings of a survey showing that 41% of Senior IT Professionals admit that they “don’t know” what cloud computing is. However, this is by no means an aggregate of the findings of what could have been a much larger survey. The findings are based on the responses of only 60 senior IT professionals all of whom are from the UK, in various private and public sector organizations. They had released a prior study that showed that two-thirds of UK’s senior finance professionals were confused about cloud computing.
However, there are some small signs of life in cloud computing in the UK. 5% of respondents say they use cloud computing “a lot” and 19% say they use it “sparingly.” Their definition of cloud computing may be a little blurred though, making those responses somewhat inaccurate. 59% said they know what it is: 17% say its internet-based computing, 11% believe it’s a combination of internet, software as a service, software on demand, outsourced or managed service and a hosted software service, and the remaining respondents say it’s a mixture of the above. The definitions are loose, although in some manner they’re all cloud-related.
Assuming the 41% that don’t know the definition of cloud computing didn’t claim to use the technology, we’ve still got about 25% of these UK IT professionals using cloud technology. Now to me, that sounds like the technology is catching on. The other 75% will just have to play some catch-up once their companies begin to see the value in SaaS, PaaS and/or IaaS. As for the 41% who don’t even know what cloud computing is, well they’ll wake up one of these days and actually read something regarding their industry.
I couldn’t’ find the actual report, but to read VersionOne’s summary, click here.
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Brian Wolff's definition of cloud computing.
However, there are some small signs of life in cloud computing in the UK. 5% of respondents say they use cloud computing “a lot” and 19% say they use it “sparingly.” Their definition of cloud computing may be a little blurred though, making those responses somewhat inaccurate. 59% said they know what it is: 17% say its internet-based computing, 11% believe it’s a combination of internet, software as a service, software on demand, outsourced or managed service and a hosted software service, and the remaining respondents say it’s a mixture of the above. The definitions are loose, although in some manner they’re all cloud-related.
Assuming the 41% that don’t know the definition of cloud computing didn’t claim to use the technology, we’ve still got about 25% of these UK IT professionals using cloud technology. Now to me, that sounds like the technology is catching on. The other 75% will just have to play some catch-up once their companies begin to see the value in SaaS, PaaS and/or IaaS. As for the 41% who don’t even know what cloud computing is, well they’ll wake up one of these days and actually read something regarding their industry.
I couldn’t’ find the actual report, but to read VersionOne’s summary, click here.
Want to see a short video that explains virtualization and cloud technology...with LEGOs? We like to make things easy here at BlueLock, Click here.
Want to know why cloud computing will succeed? Click here.
Brian Wolff's definition of cloud computing.
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