Executives wising up to upfront costs of private cloud: survey
As private cloud solutions are increasingly used to improve resource utilisation in the datacentre, understanding and acceptance of the technology by executives has significantly improved. The number of companies intending to deploy a private cloud has risen to one-third from a steady twenty-eight per cent in previous years, and with this organisational culture has steadily reduced in importance as a barrier for uptake. Having been the biggest inhibiting factor to adoption in 2009 (thirty-seven per cent), organisational culture is now less of a barrier to adoption consistently falling by ten per cent year-over-year to only twenty-six per cent in 2010 and seventeen per cent in 2011. This finding is the result of the fourth annual benchmark survey by Platform Computing of delegates at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’11) in June.
