Cloud computing will become an enterprise-class IT Foundation

A survey of the IT industry in Beijing May 24 showed that 92% of it executives predicted that cloud computing would become an enterprise-class it foundation within five years. The survey was conducted by Hewlett-Packard Company for 100 IT industry executives.　　According to the survey, 68% of the 100 delegates surveyed were very optimistic about the development of cloud computing technology, and expected that in three years Asian companies would be widely used in cloud computing services, and 66% per cent said their companies were planning to use the cloud computing platform within three years.　　The survey also showed that 68% of respondents said the main advantage of cloud computing was the ability to reduce costs, while another 42% expected that cloud computing would help today's global companies to improve synergies. However, cloud computing is not a barrier to development, with 30% per cent of respondents saying that one of the main obstacles to the development of cloud computing is security, while 82% per cent said data privacy was the primary concern of the industry.