IDC issues research reports regarding various sectors including up an coming area like Enterprise Cloud. The company has issued its second annual report named the Enterprise Cloud Study that focuses on IT leaders and businesses of big organizations in Canada. This new research report by IDC sgtates that cloud technology is necessary for businesses which are looking to save money, boost their productivity and increase their customer service.
This can also be judged from the study conducted by Canadian telecom carrier TELUS, which shows that Companies that have adopted cloud technology are 25 percent more flexible in accepting new technologies and are considered more progressive, innovative and better suited at outdoing their peers.
According to TELUS’s vice-president of Business Solutions Marketing, Tony Krueck, “The survey indicates that the number one priority for Canadian businesses is improving customer service. IT leaders are realizing that moving IT functions to the cloud can have a real impact on their bottom line and can help them focus on their core business, including their customers. Those who have made the move are now reaping the benefits of cloud. The IDC survey found that an impressive 81% of Canadian businesses reported lowering the cost of IT due to cloud adoption.”
A lot of experts at IDC have predicted the cloud as a conventional technology for the future. According to an estimate the cloud service in Canada alone will exceed $1 billion by next year. Therefore, IDC thinks that at this point in time businesses have got a very short period to educate themselves and extend their strategy to adopt the cloud. So those who failed to adopt this new technology might not be able to carry on and compete.
At this point in time 55 percent of big businesses in Canada “have third-party hosting services with roughly 31 percent of organizations with both hosting and cloud. Organizations that utilized these services are better equipped when overcoming data security, compliance and data residency concerns,” according to iPhoneinCanada.
Mark Schrutt, director of services and enterprise applications at IDC Canada has said that, “If we look at the results from the 2012 Telus IDC cloud survey, the number one reason Canadian enterprises are fearful to step outside of their traditional IT comfort zone is risk. The good news is that this year, the majority of users said they were able to easily overcome these challenges and that cloud actually was a catalyst for improving data security.”
Adding to this, Krueck said that, “The future of cloud looks bright for Canadian business. The IDC white paper states that over the next four years cloud will grow by 25% and hosting by 9.6% compared to a growth rate of 3.5% for the rest of the Canadian IT market. Now is the time for businesses to develop expertise with these IT sourcing options to realize a competitive advantage.”
Source: TechVibes
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