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Cloud not yet getting through to CIOs

Over half of CIOs fail to see how cloud computing can save them money despite the reduction of capital expenditure being a fundamental tenet of the cloud proposition.Research conducted by BT and Datamonitor showed that 53% of CIOS were yet to be convinced that clouds, while 57% said they were not happy running applications and storing data outside their country. BT claims this means cloud advocates and channels still have a lot of work to do to convince enterprise buyers that clouds are robust enough to support their demands.The survey of 2,400 IT users and 270 CIOs, which was carried out in September across 13 countries, also unearthed further evidence that chronic underinvestment in IT during the recession is going to return to haunt the industry.

A quarter of those quizzed said budget cuts have harmed innovation, with slightly fewer claiming cuts had prevented them from winning new business.

ITPS comment on the article: The ITPS take on Cloud Computing is that in many ways it is something that we have been delivering for many years and it has only recently hit the headlines because of the interest shown in it by some of the major Global companies such as Amazon and Microsoft. This coupled with the increase in the availibility of faster internet speeds (the turbo charged Virgin Business Media springs to mind) which makes it a more viable option. We understand why CIOs are concerned about the robustness and location of the Cloud and that is why our three data centres are based in the UK, are highly secure and can be visited at any time. Contact us if you would like to see if your own Cloud in one of our data centres would be cost effective for your business.