Cloud computing accelerates popular hybrid and private cloud is the main choice

The results of a survey by VMware commissioned by Forrester on the annual Cloud Maturity index in the Asia-Pacific region show that cloud computing is accelerating towards universal access, with mixed cloud and private cloud being the main choice for Chinese enterprise users, while big companies are playing a leading role in the popularity of cloud computing.

(October 27, 2011, Beijing, China)-Global virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure leading manufacturer VMware (NYSE: VMW) held its 2011 Vforum conference in Beijing today. At the meeting, VMware announced the results of a survey commissioned by VMware on the annual Cloud Maturity index for the Asia-Pacific region. The survey visited 6,141 business decision-makers in 8 Asia-Pacific countries, including China, Australia, India, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, and 1688 of them were visitors from China, surveyed by multinationals, local/regional companies and the public sector.

Surveys show that users increasingly see cloud computing as a key factor in their business competitiveness, users across the Asia-Pacific region are speeding up the adoption of cloud computing: 87% per cent of respondents think cloud computing is relevant to their business, a figure that has grown 1 time times over the past two years, and the greater the size of the business, the higher the level of awareness The company's adoption rate for cloud computing is also higher; 64% of surveyed companies are or are planning to adopt cloud computing. China's users plan to use cloud computing in the future by up to 46%, the highest in the region.

Other survey data also show the fact that cloud computing is gaining ground from different perspectives: data privacy has replaced security as the most important factor for cloud computing users; CEOs are increasingly prominent in the decision making of cloud computing, with 58% of CEOs playing a key role in decision-making.

At the same time, users ' perceptions of cloud computing and virtualization are moving deeper: virtualization, together with security and isolation, is considered the most basic module for building cloud computing; The user's interest in Server/data center virtualization continues to grow, scoring over the past year from 7.9 to 8.4 (out of 10); 68% The companies surveyed believe virtualization is one of the 10 core business applications, 65% last year; In the segment, the Asia-Pacific region has the highest virtualization adoption rates in the insurance industry (83%) and Banking/financial services (81%).

In China, large companies (more than 10,000 employees) remain the main drivers of cloud computing. At present, 38% of large companies have adopted cloud computing, compared with only 17% of employees with fewer than 500 people using cloud computing. Another 50% of large companies are planning to use cloud computing.

Chinese companies now focus on private clouds far beyond the public cloud. The proportion of Chinese companies surveyed choosing to be more likely to adopt a private cloud is 40%, far exceeding the 5% per cent of the public cloud, but up to 46% of the Chinese companies surveyed plan to deploy both public and private clouds (mixed clouds).

deploying Applications/Services is more likely to be the primary driver of cloud computing for Chinese users, taking precedence over cost savings and on-demand scalability. At the same time, 79% of Chinese companies want to deploy storage to private clouds, the highest proportion in the entire Asia-Pacific region, showing Chinese users ' focus on data privacy.

"The results of the 2011 Cloud Maturity Index show that users in the Asia-Pacific region, especially China, are accelerating their acceptance of cloud computing," said Mr. Song, president of VMware Greater China. At the same time, more and more users realize that virtualization is the basic building block of cloud computing, and virtualization has become one of the most important business applications of users. VMware's cloud-computing infrastructure suite is a milestone in the cloud computing world, to protect the customer's existing investment on the basis of a gradual way to help customers smooth towards a secure, efficient hybrid cloud environment, and fully protect the user's data privacy, so that users can truly control the "your cloud."