The results of a new Forrester Research survey show that while awareness around cloud computing has grown by leaps and bounds, the concerns of potential adopters remain the same. But apparently vendors and cloud promoters didn’t get the memo.
Forrester conducted its “State Of Emerging SMB Hardware: 2009 To 2010″ survey over two months and returned around 3,000 business respondents. Roughly 51% of those respondents named uncertainty about security in cloud environments the biggest obstacle to adoption.
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Larger firms take a far more measured and thoughtful approach, demanding concessions on cloud weaknesses like security, transparency and performance guarantees, said Young. If current providers like Amazon don’t step up, he said, others will in very short order.
The results of a new Forrester Research survey show that while awareness around cloud computing has grown by leaps and bounds, the concerns of potential adopters remain the same. But apparently vendors and cloud promoters didn’t get the memo.
Forrester conducted its “State Of Emerging SMB Hardware: 2009 To 2010″ survey over two months and returned around 3,000 business respondents. Roughly 51% of those respondents named uncertainty about security in cloud environments the biggest obstacle to adoption.
http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid201_gci1376086,00.html
Larger firms take a far more measured and thoughtful approach, demanding concessions on cloud weaknesses like security, transparency and performance guarantees, said Young. If current providers like Amazon don’t step up, he said, others will in very short order.