[LINK] itN: ABS dampens as-a-service hype

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 16/07/2015 2:29 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:
>> National statisticians dampen as-a-service hype.
>> ... even in the biggest businesses surveyed, those not using cloud services outnumbered [>2:1] those who do.
>> Software-as-service was the most popular cloud-based product in all business sizes, followed by storage. Cloud-based compute services were used by less than 15 percent of respondents in all of the smaller size brackets except for those employing 200+ staff, who reported a usage rate of 29 percent.
>> Amongst the 200+ employee category, the threat of a security breach topped the list of cloud fears, with more than 30 percent of respondents nominating it as an obstacle.
>> Just over 19 percent of this group also cited uncertainties about the location of data ...
> Music to the ears of this person at least ...
+1

I wonder what the numbers are for government - state and fed.

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