Cloud models in user check
A recent survey shows the potential cost savings from cloud computing and the advantages and disadvantages of the various uses. The German companies use after long hesitation now increasingly cloud offerings. This is confirmed by various studies such as the BITKOM Cloud Monitor. Thus already two out of three companies in Germany employ cloud services, the SMEs are with 100 to 1,999 employees, even above average. However, these studies say little about whether the cloud is actually worth and what variation in what cases makes sense. To clarify these questions, market researchers from Research in Action (RIA) on behalf of Interxion surveyed more than 500 IT decision-makers with budget responsibility in German companies in various industries. Accordingly, the moving of data and applications to a public cloud and the outsourcing of the IT infrastructure to a commercial data center operator (colocation) pay off the fastest. Investment in public cloud services are profitable in 87.1 perce...