IT Complexity, Costs Driving Cloud Adoption — from the Journal by David Nagel
The challenges of managing information technology are weighing ever more heavily on in-house IT departments across all sectors. Coupled with the economic difficulties of the last couple years, these challenges are pushing IT in some profoundly new directions, according to research firm Gartner, which said the result is a notable swing toward cloud-based services that’s expected to fuel unprecedented growth in cloud computing over the next several years.
“The scale of application deployments is growing; multi-thousand-seat deals are increasingly common,” said Gartner Research Vice President Ben Pring in a statement released to coincide with a new report issued by the firm this week, “Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide and Regions, Industry Sectors, 2009-2014.” “IT managers are thinking strategically about cloud service deployments; more-progressive enterprises are thinking through what their IT operations will look like in a world of increasing cloud service leverage. This was highly unusual a year ago.”