Thursday, March 31, 2011

Cloud computing dominates data center agenda, says survey

Cloud computing adoption among data center managers has snowballed in the last year with more than 70 percent of respondents who have implemented the technology or seriously considering it, according to a survey by AFCOM, a data center association.

AFCOM surveyed 358 data center managers and found a cloud computing sea change. In 2010, 14.9 percent of data center managers implemented cloud computing in their facilities. For AFCOM’s 2011 survey, 36.6 percent of respondents implemented cloud computing and another 35.1 percent were seriously considering it.

The takeaway: 80 percent to 90 percent of data centers will have some form of cloud computing in the next five years, said AFCOM.

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Source: ZDNet

By: Larry Dignan

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