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The overall cloud adoption rate in the UK now stands at 84 percent, according to research from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), which counted companies using at least one cloud service.
The research also shows that almost four in five (78 percent) of cloud users have adopted two or more cloud services.
With the end of Microsoft support for Windows Server 2003 later this year, the industry body anticipates that adoption rates will increase further as more organisations put their servers into the cloud instead.
The survey found that half of all respondents expected to move their entire IT estate to the cloud “at some point”, with 16 percent intending “to do this as soon as practically possible”.
The applications most users anticipate being cloud-based over the next 12 months are CRM, disaster recovery/backup, data storage, email and collaboration services, in that order.
Alex Hilton (pictured), CEO of CIF, said: “Cloud has moved from the edge of the IT estate to its centre, and it is now largely regarded as just another way that we do IT. Importantly, it is, by and large, delivering the benefits the industry promised it would deliver.
“We know that 90 percent of organisations using cloud are satisfied with it, 70 percent expect to up their usage over the coming year, and that 56 percent believe that it has provided them with competitive advantage.”
He added however that around half of businesses cannot foresee a time when they will move all of their IT to the cloud. They will instead manage a blend of IT delivery models, he said.
This article first appeared on ChannelBiz
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I had the pleasure to discussing this theme at the UK Cloud Awards with Alex Hilton, where http://www.backbone.uk.com ended up being runners-up to AWS for "Best Service Provider" of the year, and I still find it shockign that 10% of organisations usign cloud are not satisfied with their service, somehting Alex Hilton said was due to their being such a lot of cloud service providers who had jumped on the bandwagon and were churning out marketing hype as opposed to actaully having the skills and experience to deliver