SpamTitan, a leading producer of email security solutions, today announced a number of compelling statistics from its recent cloud computing research. Approximately 68% of online users use some form of cloud computing, defined as any web based activities that involves storing data and/or accessing online applications (such as webmail services, services that involve the storing of personal photos, videos, computer files or applications such as Google Documents or Adobe Photoshop Express).
51% of Internet users, who have done a cloud computing activity, say the major reasons are convenience, flexibility, and ease of deployment. 41% of cloud users say the major reason they use these applications in a cloud computing environment is because of the ability to access data from any computer or remote location. 39% cite the ease of sharing information as the top reason to use a SaaS application. 63% of Internet users involved with any kind of application in a cloud expect superior customer service and performance and would quickly switch to another provider if they felt the level of service was not up to par.
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53% of Internet users involved with any kind of SaaS application find that the expense involved with cloud computing is a fraction of what it would cost a company to buy and operate a similar system on their own.