Monitis: Cloud Monitoring Blog

Even though companies are concerned with Security, Availability and Integration, they are still making significant plans to invest in Cloud Computing. Forrester Research collected data on the types of Cloud Computing environments that clients prefer. One in four respondents responded that they are spending or anticipate expenditures on IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). The perceived benefits of efficiency and cost reduction outweigh the perceived costs of the issues like security and availability.

Forrester Findings:

1. One in four respondents indicate that their firms anticipate spending or are already spending on IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) through an external service provider.
2. External IaaS is slightly more attractive to firms than internal clouds.
3. Firms tend to express interest in either an external cloud or an internal cloud, but not both.
4. Larger firms express greater interest in capitalizing on IaaS capability than smaller firms do.
5. The interest in using external clouds for production app placement is nearly as high as interest in using these clouds for test/dev.

Companies are embracing external clouds as a means of production app deployment just as quickly as they are moving to a cloud-based model of testing and development. This enthusiasm for cloud computing demonstrates that companies understand that cloud computing is safe and secure route to cost savings.