[Year 12 IT Apps] Cloud computing (U4O2)

[Mark KELLY]

This guy believes cloud computing is here to stay...

http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/03/cloud-here-to-stay/


   - According to AMD (1/12), 70 percent of businesses are either using or
   investigating cloud computing solutions.
   - According to an IBM survey (2011) of 2,000 midsize companies,
   two-thirds were planning or had already deployed cloud-based technologies,
   and 70 percent were actively pursuing cloud-based analytics for greater
   insight and efficiency.
   - 90 percent of Microsoft’s 2011 R&D budget was spent on cloud computing
   strategy and products.
   - In a 2011 Avanade-commissioned study of C-level executives from 18
   countries to learn how cloud computing is being used in the enterprise, it
   found:
      - 60% reported cloud computing as their highest IT priority.
      - 74% are already using some form of cloud computing technology.
      - 64% are investing in training new and current employees on their
      cloud expertise.
   - Worldwide IT spending on cloud computing has increased more than 25
   percent from 2008 to 2012.
   - 30% of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) used cloud software in
   2011.
   - A study by Mimecast in 2010 found that 70 pecent of companies that
   were using cloud computing services are willing to and will move new
   applications to the cloud.
   - 48 percent of U.S. government agencies moved at least one workflow to
   the cloud following the new requirement that federal agencies adopt a
   “cloud-first” policy.
   - 41 percent of senior executives say they are using or plan on using
   some kind of private cloud.
   - Cloud providers have increased personnel from nil in 2007 to over
   550,000 in 2010.

Then he tackles arguments put against cloud computing...

-- 
Mark Kelly
Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: +613 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
VCE IT Lecture Notes: http://vceit.com
Moderator: IT Applications Edulist <http://www.edulists.com.au/>

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Grammar for the 21st century...
Infinitive: I sync my phone.
Past tense: I sanc my phone.
Past participle: I have sunc my phone.
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