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”

March 27, 2012
"After more than a decade of use, adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve regionally within the enterprise application markets. Increasing familiarity with the SaaS model, continued oversight on IT budgets, the growth of platform as a service (PaaS) developer communities and interest in cloud computing are now driving adoption forward."

— Quote by Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner.  Quote found in a Gartner press release at Gartner Says Worldwide Software-as-a-Service Revenue to Reach $14.5 Billion in 2012

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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)

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

February 13, 2012
"Gartner has identified three major drivers for the adoption of cloud/SaaS offerings for BI, analytics and performance management: 1) Time to Value, 2) Cost Concerns, 3) Lack of Available Expertise"

— Quote (and more information) found in a Gartner Press Release titled:  Gartner Says Nearly One Third of Organizations Use or Plan to Use Cloud Offerings to Augment Business Intelligence Capabilities

January 26, 2012
"Public cloud services will grow five times faster than overall IT enterprise spending (19 percent annually through 2015)"

— Quote by IT research analyst firm Gartner in press release:  “Gartner Says Worldwide Enterprise IT Spending to Reach $2.7 Trillion in 2012”

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”

January 26, 2012
"Demand for private clouds is expected to double as many organizations look for ways to gain greater flexibility from their computing resources while still maintaining control of their data. Forrester predicts the private cloud market to rise from $7.8 billion in 2011 to more than $15 billion in 2020."

— Quote found at IBM press release:  “IBM Introduces New Portfolio of Private Cloud Offerings”

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”

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

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