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Hi! My name is Bill Chamberlin. While I am employed as a Principal Analyst at IBM, this blog represents my own work on my own time. Any opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent IBM's views or opinions.

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May 7, 2012

"2012 State of Cloud Computing Survey shows adoption of public cloud on a consistent upward pace; just 27% of 511 respondents from companies with 50 or more employees aren’t in the market for these services."

— Quote from an Information Week article “2012 Strategic Security Survey: Pick The Right Battles”

11:00am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyL2Wnar

March 20, 2012

"While only 13% of businesses have substantially implemented cloud-based offerings, they are expected to grow to 41% in three years. Overall, 72% of businesses said they have had some use of cloud technology, with 38% of those surveyed saying they have piloted a cloud deployment, and 21% saying they have adopted a cloud platform. A relatively small 13% said they’ve implemented the cloud at their business. In three years, however, those numbers are expected to grow substantially, with 90 % of respondents saying they plan to be involved in cloud activities."

— Quote found in an online ComputerWorld article titled IBM: Cloud deployment low now but won’t stay that way. The article provides an overview of a recently released IBM study on cloud computing titled “The Power of Cloud: Driving business model innovation” (pdf file)

8:54am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyIHoqHH

Filed under: cloud computing cloud cloud-computing ibm computerworld business-model agility agile

March 7, 2012

"Cloud isn’t just about gaining efficiencies and cost savings; it’s about driving the kind of fundamental innovation that provides lasting marketplace advantage. Cloud has the power to open doors to more efficient, responsive and innovative ways of doing business, and we believe the companies that will come out on top will be the ones that find ways to leverage it as a key point of differentiation in driving business value. Whether they choose to tap cloud to optimize, innovate or even disrupt their business models, they need to start working on it now."

— Quote by Saul Berman, IBM global strategy consulting leader and co-author of a recent study on cloud computing. The quote was found in an IBM press release: IBM Study: Cloud Computing to Rewrite Corporate Business Models

11:51am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyHcyWVS

Filed under: ibm cloud computing cloud-computing cloud

January 26, 2012

"The global public cloud services market will more than triple in size over the next five years to reach revenues of $66 billion in 2016. The market will see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.4 per cent from the $18 billion it will reach at the end of 2011."

— Quote found in a press release by the research firm, Ovum. See “Public cloud services market to hit revenues of $66 billion”

11:45am | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyFP8Gct

(Notes: 1)

Filed under: cloud public-cloud cloud-computing cloud computing iaas paas saas ovum

December 6, 2011

"Cloud and data center traffic is exploding, driven by user demand to access volumes of content on the devices of their choice. The result: greater data center virtualization and relevance of the network for cloud applications and the need to make sense of a dynamically evolving situation."

— Quote by Suraj Shetty, vice president of product and solutions marketing, Cisco. Quote found at a Cisco press release article titled “New Cisco Global Cloud Index Projects Cloud Computing Traffic to Grow 12-Fold by 2015; Cloud to be 51 percent of Data Center Workloads by 2014”

5:21pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/Zf2aXyCvEP0b

(Notes: 15)

Filed under: cisco cloud cloud-computing cloud computing virtualization emerging-technology emerging-tech

December 1, 2011

"Public cloud services will grow five times faster than overall IT enterprise spending (19 percent annually through 2015)."

— Quote from Gartner in an October 17, 2011 press release “Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise IT Spending to Reach $2.7 Trillion in 2012” Gartner logo