Tuesday 1st September, 2015

According to findings of a global study by Cisco and International Data Corporation (IDC), cloud is moving into a second wave of adoption. Companies are looking to cloud as a platform to fuel innovation, growth and disruption after focusing on efficiency and reduced costs.

The study finds that 53 percent of companies expect cloud to drive increased revenue over the next two years. Unfortunately, this will be challenging for many companies as only one percent of organisations have optimised cloud strategies in place while 32 percent have no cloud strategy at all.

Nick Earle, Senior Vice President, Global Cloud and Managed Services Sales, Cisco

"As we talk with customers interested in moving to the second wave of cloud, they are far more focused on private and hybrid cloud—Primarily because they realise that private and hybrid offer the security, performance, price, control and data protection organisations are looking for during their expanded efforts.

This observation, which drove our strategy to build a portfolio of private and hybrid infrastructure and as-a-service solutions, is reflected in the new IDC study, which shows that 44 percent of organisations are either currently using or have plans to implement private cloud and 64 percent of cloud adopters are considering hybrid cloud."

The research developed by IDC was compiled with input from executives responsible for IT decisions in 3,400 organisations across 17 countries that are successfully implementing private, public and hybrid clouds in their IT environments.