The results of the fourth annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey: facts, stakes and opportunities.

When it comes to Cloud technologies and Cloud services, the Cloud marketplaces and more, Connectikpeople.co soon RetinkNow®, observes, scrutinizes and paves the way in real-time the trends and innovations around and inside this industry.

This worldwide unique experience allows us to predict an increasing market, where enterprises and people, organizations and public sectors are progressively seduced by the flexibility and the agility, the integrated solutions and the end-to-end security approaches provided by this industry.

Despite a set of reluctances in terms of security and privacy, the trends like SaaS( Software as a Service), IaaS( Infrastructure as a Service) and the PaaS( Platform as a Service) , respectively lead the rate of adoption.

As part of our global commitment, Connectikpeople.co soon RetinkNow®, has captured for you   the results of the fourth annual Future ofCloud Computing Survey, conducted by North Bridge Venture Partners, Gigaom Research and supported by over 70 other collaborating organizations.

The study analyzed the inhibitors and drivers behind cloud adoption, separating the hype surrounding the cloud and real world cases across a sample of 1358 respondents.

Connectikpeople.co soon RetinkNow® has selected highlights from this Survey Data:

According to this data :

• 49% of respondents in this year’s survey using cloud to fuel revenue generation or new product creation.
• 45% of businesses say they already, or plan to, run their company from the cloud showing how integral cloud is to business.

SaaS Adoption Has More Than Quintupled

• From 11% adoption in 2011 to 74% in this year’s survey, but in the enterprise, it is still mostly transitioning to existing applications.
• The front office is leading the way with sales and marketing at 51% adoption; customer service and analytics both at 43% adoption.

IaaS and PaaS Adoption Reaching a Tipping Point

• 56% of businesses are using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies to harness elastic computing resources.
• 41% of businesses are using Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies to prototype and develop new applications.

Data Wants to be Bigger in the Cloud

• Two thirds of respondents believe their data will come to reside in some form of cloud over the next two years as bigger data needs consolidation and collaboration and creation go online.

When it comes to inhibitors, Connectikpeople.co soon RetinkNow®, observes that, security continues to be a strong barrier with 49% of respondents concerned about how secure their data is in the cloud. Fear of vendor lock-in was 29%, which put focus on open-source cloud projects like OpenStack, which have received a lot more interest in

the last year.

Privacy concerns rose once again to 31% in 2014 as increased tension manifested itself between the desire for anonymity and the convenience and utility of personalization.