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Sandra Palumbo, Yankee
Group: IaaS Infrastructure-as-a-Service Adoption Growing
August 25, 2010
 SaaS'
younger sibling just got an ego boost. According to Yankee Group, 24
percent of large enterprises with cloud experience are already using
IaaS, and an additional 37 percent expect to adopt IaaS during the next
24 months. While adoption is still much slower than that of SaaS
solutions, the market is gaining traction.
"Is IaaS Moving Beyond Just Cloud Fluff?," a new report based on Yankee
Group's Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Cloud Computing FastView Survey,
uncovers adoption trends for this pay-as-you-go infrastructure solution,
including:
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 Expedited
adoption. Sixty percent of enterprises
considering IaaS in the next 24 months are actually
planning to implement it in the next 12 months.
- Barriers
to IaaS. The No. 1 barrier for enterprises
considering IaaS adoption is virtualization security,
but those that have already deployed IaaS rank
regulatory compliance, data migration, reliability,
employee use and quantitative benefits higher.
- Preferred
partners. Though the majority of all cloud
adopters view systems integrators as their most trusted
partners for cloud computing (29 percent), IaaS early
adopters say telecom companies are best positioned for
cloud services (33 percent).
"The desire to adopt
is there, but IaaS solutions and providers still have some barriers to
address," said Sandra Palumbo, Yankee Group research fellow and author
of the report. "As adoption plans begin to mount, the time is now for
service providers, systems integrators and others to solidify their
solutions and address the lingering concerns around the cloud." |
