Survey: ‘North American businesses are cloud enthusiasts’.

Cloud computing trend obliges, despite  a few reticence, progressively lot of mutations and transformations in terms of costs reduced, user experience, competitiveness and efficiencies are observed inside the companies and organizations.

 According to a newglobal study conducted by NTT Com Security, 87 percent of North American organizations surveyed have already moved, or are looking to move, the majority of their data and services into the cloud

within the next two years , compared to 68 percent of businesses in Asia, and 60 percent in Europe. Regions with the lowest early adoption of cloud services in organizations were Japan (54%) and the Nordics (34%).

North American organizations have also been committed to the cloud for longer than those interviewed in other regions, with 98 percent of NorthAmerican businesses interviewed confirming that cloud-based operations havebeen part of their infrastructure for six months or longer. In Asia 83 percent of organizations have been using the cloud over this time, and 79 percent in Europe.

Connectikpeople has also observed that, the survey is based on in-person interviews with more than 700 IT decision makers at organizations with 500+ employees from USA/Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Nordics.

In the US and Canada, with 59 percent of North American businesses stating they actively experiment with emerging technologies, followed by Singapore (41%), Japan (26%), Germany (21%) and the UK (20%).

The survey also revealed an increased commitment to cloud-related spend by North American businesses, with on average 32 percent of IT budget dedicated to cloud technology. The picture is the same in Asia (also 32%), with Europeans lagging behind with an average 24 percent of IT budget dedicated to cloud. When asked if the cloud is ‘critical’ for deploying services, 45 percent of North American firms agreed, compared with 32 percent in Singapore, 29 percent in Germany and just nine percent in the UK.

The same survey shows that  US and Canadian organizations are driven primarily by cost (63%), followed by business agility and flexibility (52%), availability of in-house skills (47%), competitiveness (39%) and client retention (38%). Indeed worldwide, organizations admitted that cost reduction was the most likely factor to drive cloud deployment (50% in Europe and 54% in Asia), followed by availability of skills (27% in Europe, 20% in Asia) and finally speed-to-market (26% in Asia and 22% of European organizations).

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About NTT Com Security (formerly Integralis)

NTT Com Security (formerly Integralis) is the power behind WideAngle, a global information security and risk management brand. WideAngle delivers a portfolio of managed security, business infrastructure, consulting and technology integration services. WideAngle helps organizations lower their IT costs and increase the depth of IT security protection, risk management, compliance and service availability. NTT Com Security AG, is headquartered in Ismaning, Germany and part of the NTT Communications Group, owned by NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation), one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world.