CIOs Look at Cloud computing: what day stop talking and start acting?

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As an emerging technology that promises to slash costs, cloud computing is increasingly being pursued by a host of companies. IBM, Google, Amazon, the major manufacturers see the treasure, have set up departments to provide cloud services. Time Wind "Cloud" Chung, a group of acronyms like springing up out of the IT field has become another high-profile hotspot.

Does the CIO who holds it investment decisions understand the true nature of cloud computing? How do they look at this? Are they going to pay for this new concept? Which vendors are more favored by CIOs? To unlock these questions, the CIO Times network is associated with the North CIO class, In the course of the university CIO class, a special questionnaire survey was conducted, which is based on the questionnaire.

1, Cloud Computing: the world who do not know June? But it is difficult to see "Yunshan" True Colors

Following SOA, SaaS, Cloud computing becomes the upstart of IT industry, under the impetus of the major manufacturers, the wind, even its name also with a bit of romantic flavor, to the original boring it circle brought a bit of mystery, and is therefore, cloud computing this word in 2008 popular in the world, quickly by the vast number of it practitioners familiar.

Our survey also proved this, in the survey only 8% of the CIO said did not hear the concept, 55% of the CIO said, but the specific meaning is not clear, 25% of the CIO said more understanding, 16% to understand, more interested. As much as 92% of the CIO's understanding of the ratio is really "who do not know the King", but we also found that more than half of the people said that the word has been dizzy, only to understand a concept, say, "Foggy" do not know what the meaning of its specific.

The survey data is shown in the following figure:

While the specifics are unclear, up to 58% of CIOs say cloud computing is a future trend, but are still immature, with 29% of CIOs saying that cloud computing will revolutionize the status of IT technology, and 8% says cloud computing is good but not suitable for businesses. Only 8% of CIOs think that cloud computing is a flash in the pan, a big difference from what we had expected. It seems that the understanding of the content does not stop the CIO's optimism about cloud computing's prospects, and people are still bullish on its trends.

The survey data is shown in the following figure:

2, Cloud Computing: from concept to application how far is the road?

Again misty concept also need to fall, and then mysterious technology also need practical, cloud computing can be the CIO accepted, can really landed into the enterprise, the government, is our investigation of a focus. The results of the survey showed that nearly 50% of CIOs said they had no plans or were not sure they would, and only 12% said they would consider the application within 1-3 years, and 29% said they were actively studying it. It seems that there is still a long way to go from concept to landing.

The specific data is shown in the following figure:

When asked about what cloud computing can bring, 39% of CIOs look to reduce costs, perhaps with the romantic propaganda of cloud computing "to use it like water and electricity", companies do not need to set up their own information center, the cost of course will be reduced, which seems to be undoubtedly, and indeed the most attractive. 34% of CIOs say cloud computing can bring a quick response to the market, while 25% think it can improve business agility and 29% are unclear. From this set of data can be seen, the number of manufacturers propaganda still played a role, the CIO for no longer set up data center, IT "with the use" or show great Expectations.

The relevant data is shown in the following figure:

As a supplement to the previous question, we specifically designed a CIO-specific question: what is your personal interest in cloud computing? More than half of the CIOs represent the flexibility and scalability of the business, and CIOs are already suffering from the rigidity of IT architecture, It is welcome to all technologies that meet the flexibility and scalability of business requirements, and the same conclusions are drawn in the relevant survey of SOA. Specific survey data are shown in the following illustration:

3. Security is the biggest concern of application the lack of mature programs is a stumbling block

Cloud computing allows companies to outsource computer processing, as long as they pay to external providers, and then companies can access computing infrastructure through cloud computing environments. This sounds like an ideal, but the security of the enterprise data who is guaranteed? Data is the biggest wealth of the enterprise, put into its own data center and worry about security, put it to others can be assured? The findings suggest that our concerns are not superfluous, with 50% of CIOs saying security is the most worrying thing to do with cloud computing.

Another obstacle to cloud computing applications is the lack of mature solutions, now cloud computing is still in the early stages of development, most manufacturers have not mature solutions, success stories are few. It seems that the major manufacturers should be "stop talking, start action", as soon as possible to come up with mature solutions to further remove obstacles to progress.

Specific findings are shown in the following illustration:

4, IBM's "cloud" is the most favored Google Microsoft second

IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, Sun, and almost all the mainstream it vendors have put forward their own private cloud, the public cloud plan, colorful, you sang my debut, but which one of the most approved by the CIO? The survey showed IBM winning the survey, with 39% of CIOs bullish on IBM, The second is Google and Microsoft, the ratio is 28% and 25% respectively.

The survey data is shown in the following figure:

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